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How Great Is Our God!

Our planet is on the outer edge of our galaxy, The Milky Way. Light from stars on the opposite edge takes 100,000 years to reach us—and that is traveling more than 186,000 miles per second. Our sun is...

Heaven

Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq has built 50 palaces at a probable cost of two billion dollars. Each one has an underground bunker covered by concrete two feet thick reinforced with steel. They c...

Heaven

Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq has built 50 palaces at a probable cost of two billion dollars. Each one has an underground bunker covered by concrete two feet thick reinforced with steel. ...

Imperfection

Alan Greenspan acknowledged in his recent book, The Age of Turbulence, "There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did, they wouldn’t be there. But with close to two hundred tho...

God

Mt. Rainier in the state of Washington is always an awe-inspiring sight. Its peak is snow-covered all year long. It is visible from a distance of two hundred miles. Native Americans called it Tahoma w...

Unity, Worship

In the book, The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer gives this interesting illustration: "Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?...

Power

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens in the Cascade Range of Washington exploded with what is probably the most visible indication of the power of nature that the modern world has ever seen. At 8:32 A.M....

Deception

A city boy, Morris, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. The next day, the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, but I ...

Illustration: Purity, Abstinence

In a recent edition of his "Breakpoint" commentary, Chuck Colson talked about a recent landmark study demonstrating that abstinence programs are the most effective sex-education available: “The study ...

Peace

On the twelfth of September 1683, the Turkish army was finally turned away from the city of Vienna. Among the things they left behind were the cannons with which they had bombarded the city through th...

The Nation

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on the major...

Marriage

Gary Thomas, in his book Sacred Marriage, writes: “One of the reasons the trees of the western slope of the Cascades survive so long is quite simple: The Washington forests are so wet that li...

Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter

Read reformer Martin Luther's compelling meditation on the question of who really killed Christ....

Compassion and Service

Charles Swindoll wrote, "Who really cared? His was a routine admission to busy Bellevue Hospital. A charity case, one among hundreds. A drunken bum from the Bowery with a slashed throat. The Bowery … ...

Preaching on Sensitive Subjects

I thought I was the first to discover this technique of dealing with controversial issues from the pulpit. But it turns out this little find of mine has been unearthed many times in the past....

The Biggest Differences in Sermons and Delivery in the Past 20 Years

Joe McKeever

Here are five visible changes in sermons and sermon delivery we have observed over the past two decades....

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...

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....