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Leadership

What Makes a Good Leader? John W. Gardner, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, who directs a leadership study project in Washington, D.C., has pinpointed five ch...

Illustration: Easter—Date of

Which day was the Last Supper? Well, it depends on the calendar you're using....

Buried Treasure

Jesus' parable of a man who found buried treasure in a field has had some modern parallels to show that, like all His parables, this one is true to life. In 1820, a Greek farmer on the island of Milos...

Compassion

Senator and presidential candidate John McCain tells of an experience he had as a POW in North Vietnam. At the infamous prison called the Hanoi Hilton, McCain had been tied up in a way to create maxim...

Desire

According to The Executive Speechwriter Newsletter (vol. 12, no. 3), "Desire kept young W. Clement Stone on Chicago's street corners selling newspapers. Desire later made him one of the wealthiest peo...

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...

MacArthur: The Emergent Church is a Form of Paganism

Paul Edwards interviews pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church John MacArthur about the emerging church movement in America....

Fear

In a recent sermon, John Huffman noted, "There are all kinds of fears that we confront in our everyday living. I remember an article featured in Time magazine titled "Flying Scared." It was an expos&...

Mothers

Chuck Swindoll observes, "Several years ago someone interviewed the contemporary artist Marc Chagall for a PBS program. The young, arty interviewer started the session with a question about influences...

Illustration: Defeat, Disappointment

Runner does not cry about lost gold, but celebrates the win of bronze....

Culture

A recent issue of US News & World Report featured a story entitled "Faith in America: In troubled times, how Americans' views of religion are changing." Throughout the article several polls reported C...

The Expository Method

"It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching, Christianity stands or falls." – P.T. Forsyth...

Preaching Through Their Defenses: An Interview with John Ortberg

Since 2003, John Ortberg has served as senior pastor of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California....

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

John Barry

Pointers from John Piper on approaching the Bible...

Good Works

An associate of Wesley, Samuel Bradburn, was highly respected by his friends and used by God as an effective preacher. On one occasion he was in rather desperate financial need. When Wesley learned...