Margaret Wolfe Hungerford famously said, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” We all know what that means. One person may think a piece of art is horrendous, while another may be completely taken ...

Pastor, your people love a good story. Listeners who have gone on vacation during the first ten minutes of your sermon will return home in a heartbeat the moment you begin, “A man went into a store….” ...

The smell of German coffee is strong. It is, at the moment, the sustaining force for my jet-lagged corpus. My soul, on the other hand, is sustained for a completely different reason. In a dorm room in ...

“Dwight L. Moody will preach on Sunday morning to a group of lumberjacks in upper Michigan. Martin Luther will preach on Sunday afternoon in a school-house in the mountains of Virginia. Charles Wesley ...

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“The Romance of Preaching”! Under this title C. Silvester Horne delivered one of the most brilliant and inspiring series of all the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale. Speaking in 1914, a few months ...

Not long ago I was asked to give a lecture on preaching. More specifically I was asked to talk about what I have learned about preaching over the years. My only qualification to address this topic ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. A preacher reading about how to preach better can easily begin to feel like the farmer who finally refused to go to any more ...

My familiarity with the preaching ministry comes from my years as a parish priest, college professor, and television producer. Each of these aspects of my ministry has provided the guidance and the ...