Preaching

I recently heard a speaker at a national conference begin her message by sharing she was really excited to talk because she had received a “word from the Lord” on the plane en route to the conference. Armed with this “word” to share, she stressed the importance of listening to what she had to say […]

I love church history. I took elective classes in it during both my undergraduate and graduate studies. I still like to read about church history today. To me, church history is family history. You know yourself better both as an individual follower of Jesus and corporately as the Body of Christ when you study the

Saturday Night Special. Gun enthusiasts understand this as any kind of cheap handgun. Others know it as a song from Lynyrd Skynyrd. But preachers employ this term for messages written the night before a Sunday morning service. Now, most of the pastors I speak with don’t usually begin and end their sermon writing on Saturday,