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From the Editor: Beyond Our Limits Articles: Leadership Lessons Innovations Churches Should Embrace Illustrations: Value, Child of God ClaritySuccessful Marriage Link of the Week Preacher’s Bookshelf Humor And Finally…   “O Lord, make me as holy as a forgiven sinner can be.” (Robert Murray McCheyne)   Sign up now for a 1-year subscription to Preaching … Continue reading “PreachingNOW – Vol. 6, No. 31”

The heart of preaching is found in the interplay between the preacher coming to God’s Word in Scripture and then bringing people to God’s Word. While academic preparation is essential for the preacher, our preaching must be rooted in an actual experience of the living God through Jesus Christ. The Apostle Peter writes, We did … Continue reading “Preaching by Lectionary”

Whose heart has not been thrilled by Elijah’s exploits, his proclamation to King Ahab of the three-and-a-half-year drought, his ministry to the widow of Zarephath, and his victorious battle with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel? Elijah was greatly used of God. Yet this is the same man whom we find later under a … Continue reading “Dealing with Personal Burnout in Ministry”

From the Editor: Prospective Pastors Quiz Articles: Can Felt Needs Distract Flavoring Sermons Illustrations: Failure Recognition Link of the Week Preacher’s Bookshelf Humor And Finally…    “The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.”   (Vance Havner)   Sign up now for a 1-year subscription to … Continue reading “PreachingNOW – Vol. 6, No. 32”

On September 22, Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, died at the age of 84. Marceau was an expressive artist who could make us believe he was climbing stairs when there were none, and press his hands against a pane of glass that wasn’t there, and lean into a wind that wasn’t blowing. Marceau’s most poignant work … Continue reading “Silence in an iPod World”

From the Editor: Upcoming NCP 2008 Articles: Preaching Style Reflects Relational Style Leading Means Teaching Illustrations: Holiness, Holy SpiritPlans, ProvidenceImprovement, PessimismGullibility, Cleverness Link of the Week Preacher’s Bookshelf Humor And Finally…   “He who no longer reads should get out of the ministry.”   (John Wesley)   Sign up now for a 1-year subscription to … Continue reading “PreachingNOW – Vol. 6, No. 33”

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 for one reason or another. These finger-pointers started their own movements, their own groups, and as far as some were concerned, their … Continue reading “Preaching and the House Church Movement”

My introduction to the expositions of H. A. Ironside (1876-1951) came in my 17th summer. Working in Texas and Arkansas away from family and friends, I spent considerable time reading. One afternoon I visited a Christian bookstore and selected Ironside’s Expositions in Joshua. I drove out to the city park and settled down in a … Continue reading “Henry Allan Ironside: Expositor of the Word”

It was a cool fall Sunday morning in 1865. A black man, slight of build, entered a fashionable Virginia church in downtown Richmond. The ushers made themselves busy with narthex projects and acted as though they did not notice him. No one extended a welcome or offered to lead the visitor to a seat in … Continue reading “Leaders and Followers”

From the Editor: The Power of Story Articles: Preaching and the3:00 am Test Pastors and Pay Illustrations: Faith, ExpectationsEnemy, LoveMistakes, ConfusionsHealing, Misunderstanding Link of the Week Preacher’s Bookshelf Humor And Finally…   “We’ve drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.”   (Paul Harvey)   Sign up now for a … Continue reading “PreachingNOW – Vol. 6, No. 34”