USA Today recently discovered that people find prayer as effective as drugs for the relief of pain. The survey was sponsored by USA Today, ABC News and the Stanford Medical Center. The bottom line i...
One young girl knew the power of specific prayer when she faced death head-on. In the midst of her sickness, she went to her pastor and asked what more she could do for Jesus in the short time she had...
Perhaps this article found in a church bulletin will interest you. It's entitles, "How to Get Rid of a Pastor." Not long ago a well-meaning group of laymen came from a neighboring church to see me....
Parents ask this question on a daily basis. “Should I microwave some TV dinners or make a salad? Pastors make similar decisions for their church families on a weekly basis. Every week, every pastor wo...
Whenever we face a communication challenge, telling a story is a good option, and sometimes it is the very best option....
Whitney Hopler
Worship is so much more than just the time your congregation sings during your church’s weekend services. ...
What did you learn in church today? How is it possible that so many people, young and old, can respond with nothing but silence to such a simple question after spending an entire Sunday morning in chu...
Joe McKeever
With God's help, you can leave behind the painful memories of difficult church experience....
A Pentecostal minister cannot respond to our postmodern world with strategies that deal only with surface issues. Instead, he or she must create new methods of sharing the message without disturbing t...
House Church. For pastors, the mere term once conjured up images of angry men and women gathered around a kitchen table, condemning the mistakes and failures of the traditional church they had left f...
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...