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Illustration: Holy Spirit, Security

David Jeremiah wrote: "It would be nice to be told, when we leave on a long car trip, something like this: 'I want you to know that you are going to reach your destination safely and on schedule. Rega...

Why Pentecostals Don’t Preach Expository Sermons

I am an expository preacher, and I am also a Pentecostal. Admittedly, these two categories are not often used in the same sentence....

Prayer

In his book Falling in Love with Prayer (NexGen), Mike MacIntosh writes: "When I was a teenager I wanted so much to be accepted by my peers, and I decided that a foul mouth was a way to act like a man...

The Compassion of God in Jonah

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 ...

7 Things We Regularly Get Wrong about Worship

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] ___."...

Giving To God

Baylor University is a fine institution in Beaumont, Texas. The Christian who gave the money for building that school later lost all his property. Men of the world asked him, "Don't you wish you had t...

"A Little Fellow Follows Me"

A Little Fellow Follows Me - By Lee Fisher...

Love And Commitment

Here's an illustration from the movie Matrix: Revolutions, courtesy of MovieMinistry.com: The Big Idea: Love is a connection. Scene Setup: Neo finds himself on a concrete floor. As he awakens, he is l...

Illustration: Prayer

“My point is this: One of the best ways to develop your prayer life is to be attentive to the changes and growth that are occurring in your life as a result of prayer. The more you grow, the more you ...

Illustration: Ingenuity

Ingenuity, hard work and some stick-to-it-iveness paves the way to a homerun....

Illustration: Preaching, Sermons; Pastors and Their Wives

The preacher's wife must keep her wit and wisdom about her in their marital relationship....

3 Reasons You Should Preach through Books of the Bible

Preaching through books of the Bible can be difficult, but pastors must embrace that challenge....

Illustration: Making an Exception

Rules were made to be broken, especially if it means saving face....

Preaching in a Changing Culture: An Interview with N.T. Wright

N.T. Wright was one of the featured speakers at the recent International Congress on Preaching in Cambridge, where he was interviewed by Preaching editor Michael Duduit...

New Year's Resolutions

The late Erma Bombeck made these New Year's resolutions: 1. I'm going to clean this dump just as soon as the kids grow up. 2. I will go to no doctor whose office... ...

Illustration: Age, Numbers

How old are you, Grandpa? How long have you been working on that aging process?...

Illustration: Marriage

What is manly behavior, and what is gentlemanly behavior? One husband learns a lesson in humility....

Illustration: Persistence, Self-Control

The greatest talents are those who keep trying despite rejection and apparent failure until they do succeed....

Heaven/Trust

A dying man who was living in great fear of death asked his minister if he knew exactly what heaven was like. The minister replied that he did not know exactly what heaven’s like. The sick man replied...