Author: Administrador

Cutting the Text describes the action of selecting your preaching portion, how much of the Bible you intend to preach for a sermon.1 Preaching with greater accuracy involves understanding how your selection of Text affects interpretation and application. This article contains a brief analysis of • why cutting the Text is important, • an example … Continue reading “Carefully Cut the Text”

Preaching with grace is an approach to the task of preaching that preachers would be wise to consider. You may have wondered how you came across to your listeners as you preached on difficult passages. I remember Ben approached me following a sermon on Psalm 100. He said, “Your preaching is too Calvinistic for me.” He … Continue reading “Preaching with Grace”

It is Saturday night. Your week has found you spending so much time at the hospital with church members you are thinking about stopping by human resources to pick up a paycheck. You woke up this morning with every intention of getting started on your message early…yet here you sit…looking at your Bible to find … Continue reading “Saturday Nights are NOT for Sermon Planning”

A 31-year-old pastor in Mount Dora, Fla., recently set the record for the longest sermon ever preached. Pastor Zach Zehnder of Cross Church began his quest on Fri., Nov. 7, and by Sunday had preached for 53 hours and 18 minutes. I have to assume he has no deacons at Cross Church, or they would … Continue reading “Back Page Pulpit: Going for the Record”

Based on Hebrews 7:1-10:: I love ’80s movies. The big hair, tight rolled jeans, rock ballad soundtracks, and most of all…gigantic cell phones. Can you see them? Massive handheld devices so large they required you to carry around a second bag just for them. All those phones were good for was making a simple phone call. … Continue reading “The Enduring One”

If you’re going to be a robber, be careful where you write your note. That’s a lesson one Pennsylvania man learned the hard way, after the 29-year-old tried to rob a pizza place in Uniontown. He handed an employee a note written on toilet paper that read: “I have a gun. Give me $300.” According … Continue reading “And Finally: Robber Leaves Impression”

It’s the beginning of a new year, that season when diet books sell like hotcakes (though requiring we avoid the hotcakes), gyms sell most of their memberships, and resolutions are made with great confidence, though soon they begin to fall like leaves in an autumn thunderstorm. As church leaders, we also face the promise and … Continue reading “A Preacher’s Resolutions for the New Year”

Eric Metaxas recently wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal that has been widely quoted and circulated. The article explains why, the more science discovers about the existence of life, the more the evidence points to a Creator. He writes in part: “Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet … Continue reading “The Miracle of Life on Earth”

The late Erma Bombeck made these New Year’s resolutions:  1. I’m going to clean this dump just as soon as the kids grow up.  2. I will go to no doctor whose office plants have died.  3. I’m going to follow my husband’s suggestion to put a little excitement into my life by living within … Continue reading “New Year’s Resolutions from Erma Bombeck”

Crime does not always pay, especially when you take your picture with the loot. Two culprits were arrested in Houston after taking selfies on a stolen iPad as they displayed stolen money. What they apparently didn’t realize was that the iPad was connecting to WiFi in a nearby Starbucks and uploading their photos to the … Continue reading “And Finally: Picture the Evidence”