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With a new year dawning, many Christian families will resolve to approach family devotions with greater faithfulness in the year ahead, or perhaps even to begin family devotions for the first time. These are great resolutions! Here are 10 ideas and 10 tips that may help. Ten Ideas for Family Devotions Read the Narratives. Read … Continue reading “10 Ideas and 10 Tips for Family Devotions in 2017”

Public speakers who maintain a conversational tone have a better chance of keeping their audience engaged. Constantly looking down at notes hinders the conversational nature of a presentation and causes your audience to lose interest. So how can you prepare and then speak without notes? Below I will present three steps towards speaking without notes, … Continue reading “3 Steps towards Speaking without Notes”

God’s people had rejected God’s prophet. For many years, Samuel had served the nation of Israel. Though his sons had proven wayward, he himself had remained faithful. He had served well. He had spoken the words of God to the nation. He had appointed judges to govern them. But still the day came when the … Continue reading “They Have Not Rejected You, They Have Rejected Me”

Dear friend, We all love it when life leaps into forward gear and we make all kinds of progress. Problems just seem to fall away. Perhaps in your life you’ve had a season like that, a season when your life seemed to shine and flourish. Maybe it was when you first became a believer or … Continue reading “An Open Letter to Those Frustrated by Their Progress in Sanctification”

If you’re looking for more independence day sermon ideas, be sure to head over to SermonSearch.com to find 100’s of Independence Day sermons to help you out! Fourth of July weekend is a great time to bring your church together to celebrate freedom. What’s even better, however, is that you have the opportunity to guide … Continue reading “9 Tools You Need for Your 4th of July Sermon”

“I love the Psalms. I love the rawness, the awe, the beauty, the anger, the vulnerability, the sorrow, the joy, the hope. There is nothing sterile, aloof, cool, safe, or glammed up about them, and that is what makes them useful to real people like you and me, who wrestle with real experiences of faith … Continue reading “New Devotional from Ross Lester – Selah: Devotions from the Psalms”

The apostle Paul instructed the church in Ephesus that the means by which we help each other grow up in every way in Christlikeness is by speaking the truth in love (Eph. 4:15). What is the truth? In verse 21, Paul says “the truth is in Jesus.” In other words, if we are going to … Continue reading “Weaving Gospel Fluency into Every Sunday Message”

In this fascinating excerpt from John Piper’s new book, Reading the Bible Supernaturally, we learn how Pastor John learned to read, to really read at the age of 22. In this brief excerpt we will be encouraged and challenged to question how we read the Scriptures, and then to dig in again to have our … Continue reading “Learning to Read All over Again”

Quite a few people have spoken to me about how they have noticed that the preaching calendar has changed at BBC this year. I have even had some chirps (well meaning I am sure) asking me if I have retired, or if I am being disciplined, as people aren’t seeing as much of me in … Continue reading “Building a Preaching Team: How and Why We Have Changed Our Preaching Calendar”

The Psalms make up a powerful book of the Bible that impacts us all in many ways and on many levels. Why is it that this book tends to draw us deep into places of the heart that can transform how we view situations and our lives? First and foremost, it is God’s Word. We … Continue reading “Dig into the Psalms with the Devotional Psalter”