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We’re familiar with partnerships. We’ve seen the power of partnerships in the worlds of business, entertainment and throughout history. There was Antony and Cleopatra, Currier and Ives, Bonnie and Clyde…How about Smith and Wesson? In the business world, there was Hewlett and Packard, Richard and Maurice McDonald, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Steve Jobs and … Continue reading “Becoming Partners in the Gospel”

O.S. Hawkins is president and CEO of GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Prior to beginning his service at GuideStone in 1997, he served as the pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas; before that, he was senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Hawkins has served … Continue reading “Preaching James: An Interview with O.S. Hawkins”

She may be old, but this lady is not to be messed with. The purse of an 81-year-old woman in Mount Pocono, Pa., was stolen—and she proceeded to chase down the robbers and ram their car with her own vehicle, enabling police to catch the thieves. The suspects, a 34-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman, … Continue reading “And Finally Fiestiness Fights for Rights”

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If you had told me 30 years ago when I was still in seminary that I would have staff members waiting for me to give them a part of my sermon in 140 characters or less, I wouldn’t have known what you were talking about. None of us would have. The digital and social media … Continue reading “Preaching Points: 10 Tips for Using Social Media to Support Your Preaching Ministry”

Each year we highlight a single book that has been published within the past year and has offered the most significant contribution to the literature about preaching. Sometimes it is because the book offers significant new insights about our work; sometimes the choice reflects the influence of the author, which gives the book the opportunity … Continue reading “Our 2015 Preaching Book of the Year”

“I cannot live without books,” Thomas Jefferson famously said. For Jefferson, that was probably something of an exaggeration. Preachers of the gospel, nevertheless, fully understand the impulse behind his statement. The importance of books has been, from the very beginning, paramount to the Christian faith. At the end of his life, the apostle Paul asked … Continue reading “The Best Books for Preachers in 2015”

Dr. Gardner C. Taylor was widely known as the poet laureate of American Protestantism.1 In 1979, he was named by TIME magazine as one of America’s seven greatest Protestant preachers and as dean of the nation’s black preachers in 1980. Across racial and denominational lines, those who came to know or hear Taylor revered him … Continue reading “Past Masters: Gardner C. Taylor–Poet Laureate of the Pulpit”

John Maxwell talks about the need to define how success will look for you. He writes: "If you truly want to succeed in this life, you need to ask yourself a question: Is your pursuit of success drawing you closer to or farther from the most important people in your life? If you want to … Continue reading “Defining Success”

In a day when 90 percent of all churches are plateaued or in decline, one of the most urgent needs we face is finding a way to revitalize existing churches. Church planting is an important strategy, but simply to abandon thousands of existing churches to eventual death is a callous disregard of kingdom resources and … Continue reading “3 Steps to Revitalizing Churches”