The word Easter goes back to Eastre, which was the Teutonic spring goddess for whom sacrifices were offered in April. This provoked the faithful to make sure the date of Easter Day could be moved. The...
F.B. Meyer, preaching in Keswick, England, in 1904, used this vivid illustration to describe his own moment of surrender to Christ: "I remember so well when He came to my heart and challenged me as to...
Kefa Sempangi (whose story is told in the book A Distant Grief), was a national pastor in Africa and barely escaped with his family from brutal oppression and terror in his home country of Uganda. The...
Eric C. Redmond
How does God want you to respond when you are wronged, when you are in need of vindication?...
In his book The Big Idea (Zondervan), pastor Dave Ferguson talks about how his church has taken the homiletical concept of a single driving idea for the sermon and extended that across the entire teac...
Moses must have seemed like an unlikely candidate for an inferiority complex. Raised in privilege as an adopted son in Pharaoh's household, he "was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and w...
Three women die and all three reach Heaven at the same time. There they meet St. Peter. He tells them he has some other important business to transact and asks them to wait outside. Finally he returns...
We often think of the thou-shalt-nots, but God more often says yes to His children....
Once a spider built a beautiful web in an old house. He kept it clean and shiny so that flies would patronize it. The minute he got a "customer" he would clean up on him so the other flies would not g...
Here's an illustration from the movie Matrix: Revolutions, courtesy of MovieMinistry.com: The Big Idea: Love is a connection. Scene Setup: Neo finds himself on a concrete floor. As he awakens, he is l...
Does that startle you? I have been an avid football fan, but now I've had it. Let me list the reasons for my decision never to attend another football game. 1. I was taken to too many games by my par...
The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remark...
Lent originally was established for new Christians, those who experienced a call. They were to spend 40 days and 40 nights preparing for their baptism. If at the end they still wanted to follow Jesus,...