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When a Story Is the Best Response

Whenever we face a communication challenge, telling a story is a good option, and sometimes it is the very best option....

Scripture

For a long time the center of Christianity in Europe was not Rome but Constantinople. In the Imperial Palace they placed a throne; a throne on which no one ever sat. On that empty throne they put a co...

Paradoxes

The Lord's Wisdom Upon first reading, these precepts gleaned from the gospels seem to defy human logic. A deeper study, however, will reveal that in them the Lord has outlined a wondrous pattern and a...

Third Sunday of Advent (B): The True Meaning of Christmas

Santa Claus, sleigh bells, reindeer. Snow falling, icicles forming, Christmas music playing. Christmas lights, Christmas trees, Christmas presents. Shopping, planning, cooking, eating, visiting with f...

Entertainment, Holiness, Temptaion

Do we realize how entertainment crazy Americans really are? The top ten Yahoo searches of 2003 were all popular and entertainment related. 1. KaZaA 2. Harry Potter 3. American Idol 4. Britney Spears 5...

Illustration: Impurity, Immorality

Ken Walker wrote in the Christian Reader about 6-foot-2-inch, 280-pound Clay Shiver, a center for the 1995 Florida State Seminole football team. Regarded as a likely All-American, when Shiver got word...

Gambling

In the March 4, 2003edition of his weblog, Albert Mohler notes that, "According to some estimates, as much as one-third of the nation's money supply now moves through the gambling industry each year. ...

Humility

Moses must have seemed like an unlikely candidate for an inferiority complex. Raised in privilege as an adopted son in Pharaoh's household, he "was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and w...

Illustration: Contentment, Ambition

Chuck Swindoll writes, “You and I are afraid that if we open the door of contentment, two uninvited guests will rush in: loss of prestige and laziness. We really believe 'getting to the top’ is worth ...

Content and Ambition

Chuck Swindoll writes, "You and I are afraid that if we open the door of contentment, two uninvited guests will rush in: loss of prestige and laziness. We really believe that 'getting to the top' is w...

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 ...

If Only I Had More

Philip Nation

As we move through the book of Ecclesiastes at The Fellowship, last Sunday I dealt with how we handle money and possessions. ...

The Expository Method

"It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching, Christianity stands or falls." – P.T. Forsyth...

Minister of the Word

The preacher gives a human voice to the divine word so that others will hear from God. ...

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] ___."...

Advent as an Antidote to Christian Boredom

Advent can be an antidote to the sinful slip into apathy, helping us to be astounded at the glory of God....