"When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song," tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. "He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in ...
Here's an illustration from the animated movie Shrek 2, courtesy of MovieMinistry.com: The Big Idea: Does fate rule our lives, or can we choose? Scene Setup: Shrek, Donkey, and Puss in Boots have ma...
George Atley was killed while serving with the Central African Mission. There were no witnesses, but the evidence indicates that Atley was confronted by a band of hostile tribesmen. He was carrying a ...
Ruben Ramirez of Yakima Washington wanted life in prison. To his disappointment he was only sentenced to 8½ years. Perhaps you saw his story in the newspaper. Ramirez told people he robbed the bank, n...
The glory of a dedicated quiet zone could be the healing space you need....
The Guinness Book of World Records keeps track of some very unusual records. One is, "The longest time living in a tree." A man named Bungkas went up a tree in Benkes, Idonesia in 1970 and has been th...
Are there similarities between fishing and preaching? Jesus thought so, but He wasn't talking about catch-and-releast fishing....
An informed biblical worldview supports pluralism, democracy, and freedom. Christians should neither tolerate coercive secularization of the government, nor should they aim to establish a theocracy....
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...
The heart of preaching is found in the interplay between the preacher coming to God’s Word in Scripture and then bringing people to God’s Word......
The victory over worldliness cannot be won by conforming to a list of rules. The battle is won through the power of the gospel applied to our daily choices....
Joe McKeever
With God's help, you can leave behind the painful memories of difficult church experience....
Whitney Hopler
Worship is so much more than just the time your congregation sings during your church’s weekend services. ...
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....
We live in exciting days of evangelistic possibilities. Like never before, people are searching for spiritual answers to meaningful, eternal questions. And though many of these answers are misguide...