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Illustration: Sheep, Pastors

Children might be smarter than the little lambs we sometimes think them to be. How are you shepherding your flock?...

The Good Shepherd

Something strange happened near Istanbul, according to Turkish media. Nearly one thousand sheep jumped off a cliff while shepherds who had left the herd having their breakfast. 450 sheep died in the b...

Ministers As Shepards

Rescuing the Flock A friend once told D.L. Moody just how the sheep in the Highlands of Scotland are rescued when they wander off and become stranded on a rocky crag. He said, "The vegetation on those...

Death Of Christ

The Tiger and the Lamb In a collection of Negro folk tales, William J. Faulkner related the story of a disobedient lamb. A mother sheep had warned her little ones, "Do not go near the river, for a bad...

Things to Ponder About Our World

If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter? If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? Why do they put Braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines?...

Things To Ponder About In Our World

If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter? If corn oil comes from corn where does baby oil come from? Why do they put Braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines? ...

Preaching the Psalms as Stories

I had an epiphany while listening to Johnny Cash that transformed the way I preached the Psalms. ...

When a Story Is the Best Response

Whenever we face a communication challenge, telling a story is a good option, and sometimes it is the very best option....

When Pastors Fail to Practice what they Preach

Prior to the revelations concerning Teg Haggard, Ray Pritchard received an email from a woman distraught about repeated pastoral problems in her local church. Her words speak for multitudes who have b...

Pastoring a Pentecostal Church

A Pentecostal minister cannot respond to our postmodern world with strategies that deal only with surface issues. Instead, he or she must create new methods of sharing the message without disturbing t...

Transmitting the Word: An Interview with John Piper on Consistency and Community

John Barry

Pointers from John Piper on approaching the Bible...

Preaching on Sensitive Subjects

I thought I was the first to discover this technique of dealing with controversial issues from the pulpit. But it turns out this little find of mine has been unearthed many times in the past....

When You Are Misunderstood

Assumicide happens when you make false assumptions about others so that you can portray them in the worst possible light. Ever happen to you?...