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7 Things We Regularly Get Wrong about Worship

Joe McKeever

Listen as the congregation files out of the sanctuary on Sunday, and you'll hear the common refrain: "I didn't get anything out of ___ [fill-in-the-blank] ___."...

Missions, Missionaries, Christian Service

Because of her father's drinking problem, 11-year-old Mary Slessor was putting in twelve-hour shifts in the mills, helping her family pay its bills. She found she could prop books on her loom while wo...

Illustration: Dependence on God

Dwight L. Moody told this story: “A minister was one day moving his library upstairs. As he was going up with a load of books, his little boy came in, very anxious to help his father. So his father ju...

Youth: Career

An older couple had a son, who was still living at home with his parents. The parents were a little worried that their son could not decide on his future career, so they decided to do a little test. T...

Procrastination

The story is told of a family that moved into a new community. They were promptly visited by two elders and the pastor of a nearby church who cordially invited them to attend the services on the Lo...

Evangelists

Rigby In the late 1800's and early 1900's, Alexander Whyte pastored a large church in Edinburgh. During that time, a salesman by the name of Rigby would travel to Edinburgh regularly just to hear h...

To Illustrate (July/Aug 2007)

Illustrations from the July/August issue of Preaching Magazine...

Using Humor in the Pulpit

It is not necessary, on a Sunday morning, to become a comedian for Christ. Yet neither is there a scriptural reference that claims blessed are the bored....

Surrendering Our Rights

At a luncheon in a certain city a respected millionaire got up to testify that "I owe it all to the Lord." He then shared his secret. "When I was a young fellow, a call was made for me to surrender al...

Preaching

Recently, USA Today carried an article by Greg Toppo that told of the National Anthem Project. What is the purpose? Teaching people the words and meaning of the Star Spangled Banner. According to c...

Illustration: Ministry, God’s Love

Jim Cymbala, Pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle, tells the following story: It was Easter Sunday and I was so tired at the end of the day that I just went to the edge of the platform, pulled down my tie an...

The God of Small Treasures

In a sermon by Calvin Miller, he delivered this message: “I doubt if I would even stop to pick up a penny, and yet that which was not to be treasured by me was clearly celebrated by the child. I have ...

Beware Tuneless Preaching

Part One of a Series on Preaching and Trinitarian Worship...

The Year's Best Books for Preachers

The demise of the book has been predicted for years now – its doom supposedly inevitable after the advent of the digital age. Well, someone forgot to tell the reading public in general, and prea...

What Women Wish Their Preacher Knew

Many Christian women today view the sermon—the proclamation of the gospel—as the centerpiece of the worship experience. They yearn for the serious pastor to stand with integrity in the pulpit, open hi...

How Can I Heal After an Abusive Church Experience?

Joe McKeever

With God's help, you can leave behind the painful memories of difficult church experience....