It is inevitable in a lifetime of preaching that we shall all make mistakes in our preaching. Sometimes these mistakes become embarrassingly more than we intended. I, too, have flubbed by saying somet...
Current homiletic approaches did not materialize in a vacuum. Their ascendancy to popularity did not just happen. Today at least three winds of influence swirl around contemporary homiletic discussion...
As this column goes to press, hundreds of presumably Muslim protestors in Sudan are shouting for the execution of a British school teacher. Her offense? Insulting Islam because her class of 7-year-old...
You want to shock the world? Start here--demonstrating the guts to do what's right when no one is looking....
More and more churches are responding to the call of short-term missions. Traditional missionaries invested their lives in one mission field, learning the language, absorbing the culture, and eventual...
Parents ask this question on a daily basis. “Should I microwave some TV dinners or make a salad? Pastors make similar decisions for their church families on a weekly basis. Every week, every pastor wo...
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...
Are there some particular insights you’ve gained during the years that help you preach for life change?...
I am an expository preacher, and I am also a Pentecostal. Admittedly, these two categories are not often used in the same sentence....
Joe Beam
Pick the sin and it’s likely that someone trusted as a leader in the kingdom of God has done it and been exposed....
I have to confess to a certain annoyance with buzz words--warm fuzzy jargon words like "dialogue" and "inclusion." I’m sure at times the annoyance has been of my own creation. They can be perfectly go...