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Illustration: Accuracy, Appearance

A university art student asked Bubba if he could paint Bubba’s portrait for a class assignment. Bubba agreed, and the art student painted and submitted the portrait, only to receive a C-minus. ...

Illustration: Communication

Communication is key--as is being able to give and receive messages directly....

Illustration: Charity, Expectations

One could argue that you do not receive unless you first ask....

The Extravagance of God

We serve an extravagant God. On a clear night with the unaided eye you can see 2,000 stars. Astronomers think that in the universe as a whole there are billions of stars. God made 200,000 kinds of flo...

Forgiveness

In 1961 U.S. Representative John Lewis, at the time a civil rights activist and seminary student, was beaten severely at a South Carolina bus stop. Forty-eight years later, Elwin Wilson, the man who ...

Expectations Of The Righteous

Expectation Corner A little book, long out of print, called Expectation Corner, tells of a king who prepared a city for some of his poor subjects. Not far away he constructed a large storehouse where ...

Study the Passage: The vital step in preparing powerful sermons

The first step in preparing a biblical message is to study the passage......

How to Make Your Preaching Worship

Whitney Hopler

Worship is so much more than just the time your congregation sings during your church’s weekend services. ...

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...

Guard Your Heart

Matthew 5:27-32...

Temptation: The Hardest Test You Will Ever Take

Matthew 4: 1-11 The challenge of taking tests starts rather early in......

Loving Our Enemies: A Divine Task

This ordeal left him blind in one eye so he could not take part in contact sports. Miraculously he suffered no brain damage and was fearfully aware that his abductor was still at large. He struggled w...