Evangelist Paul Rader has often urged a banker in New York State to receive Christ, but the man would not make the decision. One day the preacher sensed that God wanted him to go immediately and speak...
In a sermon on the Lordship of Christ, Roger Willmore says, "For Jesus to become Lord of a person's life involves absolute and total surrender. I can think of no better example of total surrender than...
"We have" is the significant part in the phrase, "We have the funds..." and knowing where those funds are located determines where they will be allocated....
One Sunday morning right after the worship service had ended, the pastor went and sat down with his wife. She asked him how he thought the service went. ...
How does one approach the final sermons in a church before resignation? After having to deal with this challenge a few times, let me make a few observations. ...
It is inevitable in a lifetime of preaching that we shall all make mistakes in our preaching. Sometimes these mistakes become embarrassingly more than we intended. I, too, have flubbed by saying somet...
Three boys are sitting around the lunch table at school. The first one says, “My dad's a lawyer. People pay him $200 just to write a letter.”...
There's a lot of potentially good-sounding advice to be gained, but not all of it rests on sound biblical verbiage....
Paul Boller recalls an anecdote in the life of Lincoln. When Abe was a lawyer, he was handling a court case in the courtroom of Judge David Davis. Davis held up an unusually long bill that had been dr...
We have traditionally marked our calendars, BC and AD. This is a tribute to the effect Jesus has on history....
The story is told about an upscale, conservative church during the heyday of the hippies. One Sunday morning, about halfway through the service, a young man entered the church, barefoot and wearing a ...
Many pastors are intimidated by the thought of preaching all the way through an entire book of the Bible. Some fear that congregational excitement will be hard to sustain and that pastor and congregat...
Somewhere in the process of sermonizing the preacher must turn up the heat on the passage and himself and discover the timeless, universal truth that remains...
What first appears to be a curse God can turn into a manifold blessing....
We have traditionally marked our calendars, BC and AD. This is a tribute to the effect Jesus has on history. We can mark the difference between the time "before Christ," and "the year of our Lord,"...