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An amazing gathering took place in May 2012, when a huge congregation of ultra-Orthodox Jews met in New York City’s City Field in order to warn the Jewish community about the effects of the Internet. The Internet’s ubiquity, joined with its unique pattern of information processing, presents dangers, the rabbis agreed, to the ability of … Continue reading “The 2013 Preaching Survey of the Year’s Best Books for Preachers”

Christianity began—and grew in its earliest centuries—as an urban movement. Today, American cities have become a new missionary outpost for the church. Recently, Preaching Exectuive Editor Michael Duduit sat down with pastors of three pastors in Houston, Texas, one of the nation’s largest cities, to talk about preaching in the city: Steve Wende, senior pastor … Continue reading “Preaching in the City”

David Jeremiah is the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego and the founder and speaker for the Turning Point Ministry, both on radio and television. Most recently he served as editor of the Jeremiah Study Bible, produced by Worthy Publishing. Executive Editor Michael Duduit recently visited with him, the second interview … Continue reading “Preaching the Word: An Interview with David Jeremiah”

Sandy F. Ray (1898-1979) was a preacher whose name should be well-known among preaching enthusiasts and historians. He was at his peak from the 1940s to the 1970s during a 35-year pastorate at Cornerstone Baptist Church, a historic African-American church in Brooklyn, New York. People came from all over the city and country to hear … Continue reading “Past Masters: Sandy Frederick Ray”

One of my college professors was famous for asking only one question in his final exam. Of course, the question was broad enough so we’d have to know everything discussed in class. Still, trying to guess that one question became an interesting parlor game in my fraternity house. One year, one of the brothers was … Continue reading “Preaching Points: The Danger of Answering the Wrong Question”

Obamacare—officially known as the Affordable Care Act—is all over the news these days. Fox News thinks it’s an abomination, MSNBC thinks it’s the second coming, and the folks at the Cartoon Network are wondering if Sponge Bob qualifies for coverage. What has been labeled as “health care reform” certainly has been controversial, starting with a … Continue reading “Back Page Pulpit: The Affordable Preaching Act?”

Are you ever afraid when you preach? Maybe as you make ready to mount your pulpit? I hope so! If you’re not, then I’m afraid of you and consider you a danger to the ministry. Forty-five years after I preached my first sermon, I still feel fear every time I preach—and I’m so glad I … Continue reading “Preacher to Preachers: Preaching Fear?”

In his Daily Hope newsletter, Rick Warren talks about why worldview matters: “Your worldview includes how you see God, yourself, others, the past, present, and future, money, time, good and evil. It influences everything in your life. Every time you make a decision, you access the worldview database in your mind and decide that, because … Continue reading “Rick Warren on Worldview Matters”

In a blog post last week, LifeWay President Thom Rainer talks about the eight major struggles pastors face, based on his own contacts through social media, emails and calls. He cites, these, listed in the order of frequency he has seen: • Criticism and conflict. I do have a few observations about this number one … Continue reading “Challenges Pastors Face”

If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead. When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse. Never get into fights with ugly people. They have nothing to lose. When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t … Continue reading “Laws by Which to Live”