Sir Ernest Shackleton became a folk hero because of his expeditions to Antarctica. He once described his journeys this way: ...
An old Frank and Ernest comic shows Frank asking Ernest, “Which would you rather do?Watch virtue triumph in a movie, or evil triumph in a newscast?”Sometimes it seems we can’t see vi...
David Jeremiah has observed, "Almost weekly we hear about a new computer "virus" that is spreading around the world - deleting files, crashing hard drives, and souring attitudes. Software viruses act ...
Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke...
You’re pouring your heart out. You preach like a man possessed (in a good way). You wax eloquent. And then it happens; you make eye contact with the one person in the crowd that can truly humble you –...
"I have preached the gospel now these thirty years and more, and . . . often, in coming down to this pulpit, have I felt my knees knock together, not that I am afraid of any one of my hearers, but I a...
Where your heart is, there your treasure is also. It's impossible to out-give God....
his newest book, 3:16, Lucado explores that great passage we know as John 3:16. He recently visited with Preaching editor Michael Duduit about the sermon series that led to the book, then discussed hi...
I had an epiphany while listening to Johnny Cash that transformed the way I preached the Psalms. ...
C.H. Spurgeon once said, "Prayer pulls the rope down below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give only an occasional je...
Assumicide happens when you make false assumptions about others so that you can portray them in the worst possible light. Ever happen to you?...
"Horville had a very humble job in the offices of the largest corporation of the world. He worked as the gofer in the lowest reaches of the building doing what he could to help other people do...
Dr. Bill Lawrence
Every time we fall into one of the temptations, we end up short-circuiting our purpose, sinning against God, harming others, and deceiving ourselves into thinking we are doing well....
In his new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas observes of the German pastor-theologian: “In his book Ethics...Bonhoeffer wrote about the way people worship success. The topic fascinated hi...
An elderly minister who survived the great Johnstown Flood of 1889 loved to regale audiences with tales of that harrowing event. When he died and went to heaven, he found himself in a meeting of saint...