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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] ___."...

Pastor, Before You Quit...

Joe Mckeever gives counsel to pastors in stressful, high-pressure situations who are thinking of throwing in the towel....

Study the Passage: The vital step in preparing powerful sermons

The first step in preparing a biblical message is to study the passage......

Preaching and the House Church Movement

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...

Too Good to be True

Sometimes the resurrection seems to good to be true, but this Easter sermon challenges us to be the living proof. The world needs an appearance of Jesus and a word from Him. Will it come from you and...

When Pastors Fail to Practice what they Preach

Prior to the revelations concerning Teg Haggard, Ray Pritchard received an email from a woman distraught about repeated pastoral problems in her local church. Her words speak for multitudes who have b...

Rescuing Fallen Church Leaders

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....

Preaching and the Externally-Focused Church: An Interview with Rick Rusaw

Rick is the co-author of The Externally Focused Church and 60 Simple Things Every Pastor Should Know, and his newest book is Living a Life on Loan. He was recently interviewed by Preaching editor Mich...

What Women Wish Their Preacher Knew

Many Christian women today view the sermon—the proclamation of the gospel—as the centerpiece of the worship experience. They yearn for the serious pastor to stand with integrity in the pulpit, open hi...

The Theology of Sermon Design

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 Power of the Big Idea

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...

Superficial vs. Spiritual Wisdom

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...

Temptation: The Hardest Test You Will Ever Take

Matthew 4: 1-11 The challenge of taking tests starts rather early in......