Lewis' is a large department store in Birmingham, England. Some years ago, the store wanted to expand, and one of their projected building areas held a Friends Meeting House, a small Quaker chapel. A ...
In the Oct. 21 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Alan Murray talks about a recent report of the President's Council on Bioethics. The report makes it clear that technological innovations present signi...
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....
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...
Joe Mckeever gives counsel to pastors in stressful, high-pressure situations who are thinking of throwing in the towel....
Charles Swindoll wrote, "Who really cared? His was a routine admission to busy Bellevue Hospital. A charity case, one among hundreds. A drunken bum from the Bowery with a slashed throat. The Bowery … ...
The boy said, "What a wonderful day! I asked for one flower but got a beautiful bouquet." That's the thankful spirit. That's the gratitude attitude. It's that attitude that should guide our giving and...
Dear Mom, Scoutmaster Webb told us to write our parents in case you heard about the flood and got worried. ...
In A Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Rev. John R. Ramsey tells how in one church a certain person provided him with a rose boutonnière for the lapel of his suit every Sunday. At first he ...
In a recent edition of his "Breakpoint" commentary, Chuck Colson talked about a recent landmark study demonstrating that abstinence programs are the most effective sex-education available: “The study ...
Mike Pohlman
Dear Mom, Our Scout Master told us all write to our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and worried. We are OK. Only two of our tents and four sleeping bags got washed away. Luckily, none of us dr...
How does one approach the final sermons in a church before resignation? After having to deal with this challenge a few times, let me make a few observations. ...
All of us are leaders. That simply means that someone is looking up to you, following you, watching you as an example. So, how do we learn leadership?...
Philip Nation
We’ve just finished up our message series in Jonah, and I am always devastated by what I learn in the fourth chapter. Here are my preaching notes on the subject of how we learn to take on God’s heart ...
Somewhere in the process of sermonizing the preacher must turn up the heat on the passage and himself and discover the timeless, universal truth that remains...