Fox News reported on July 31, 2002 that a new drink is gaining widespread popularity. Nexcite has sold over 24 million bottles in the last year. The reason? This beverage serves as a contemporary "lov...
In a sermon on the Sunday after 9/11, M. Craig Barnes said, "The French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur has written about the creative possibility of limit experiences. A limit experience is an experience th...
Joe McKeever
Listen as the congregation files out of the sanctuary on Sunday, and you'll hear the common refrain: "I didn't get anything out of ___ [fill-in-the-blank] ___."...
Read reformer Martin Luther's compelling meditation on the question of who really killed Christ....
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...
Assumicide happens when you make false assumptions about others so that you can portray them in the worst possible light. Ever happen to you?...
I thought I was the first to discover this technique of dealing with controversial issues from the pulpit. But it turns out this little find of mine has been unearthed many times in the past....
An Interview with Mark Labberton, Sr. Pastor of First Presbyertian Church of Berkley, Califonia....
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...
1 Corinthians 2:12-13 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in w...
Dr. Chet Weld
When a pastor falls into sin, especially sexual sin, the ripple effect on the lives of others is often immeasurable....
Studies have shown that many pastors and church staff are burning out. The current state is taking its toll....