What makes a sermon good? That has been a notoriously difficult question to answer. There are really only four kinds of sermons: biblically shallow and contextually irrelevant; biblically substantive ...

If you are able to hear that you are the salt of the earth reading from today and NOT have a song from the musical Godspell worm through your head, then more power to ya. But I am not that mentally ...

You know what classes I really hated in seminary? Pastoral care. Oh my gosh – way too touchy-feely for me. Role-playing and talking about feelings and lots of mushy language. It was awful. Bible ...

People are starving for the greatness of God. This is the opening line of the preface to John Piper’s excellent work, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, first published in 1990. Over thirty years ...

Pastor Josh Howerton, senior pastor of Lakepointe Church in Rockwall, Texas, faced criticism on social media for using two ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. No sermon is ready for preaching until we can express its theme in a short, pregnant sentence. I find getting that sentence ...

President gave sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and spoke about the need to protect democracy Joe Biden marked what would have been Martin Luther King Jr’s 94th birthday with a sermon on ...