After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network more t...
The math teacher saw that little Johnny wasn't paying attention in class. She called on him and said, "Johnny! What are 2 and 4 and 28 and 44?" Little Johnny quickly replied, "NBC, CBS, HBO and the C...
The math teacher saw that little Johnny wasn't paying attention in class. She called on him and said, "Johnny!"...
A math teacher saw that one of her students wasn’t paying attention in class. She called on him to deal with a math question and said, “Billy, what are 2, 4, 28 and 44?”...
Friendship leads to longer life, particularly friendship with Jesus, which leads to eternal life....
Barbara Walters called her one of the 10 Most Fascinating People of 1995. She's been on David Letterman's show and invited to appear with Oprah Winfrey....
It's like the speech that air travelers hear before take-off: "Put on your own oxygen mask first, and then help others around you."...
Brady Whitehead, chaplain of Lambuth College in Tennessee, tells the true story of a student whose parents were tragically killed in an accident. This student suddenly became the beneficiary of the es...
In 1961 U.S. Representative John Lewis, at the time a civil rights activist and seminary student, was beaten severely at a South Carolina bus stop. Forty-eight years later, Elwin Wilson, the man who ...
In his book The Big Idea (Zondervan), pastor Dave Ferguson talks about how his church has taken the homiletical concept of a single driving idea for the sermon and extended that across the entire teac...
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...
Studies have shown that many pastors and church staff are burning out. The current state is taking its toll....
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...
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...