A lot of you have seen these in America’s hotel rooms: But who is Gideon and why does he have a bible distributing organization named after him? I’m not sure about that second question, but I’m quite interested in the first. Because like most of the characters in the book of Judges, Gideon is layered, Read the full article…
We preachers spend a lot of time and energy trying to bring life to our sermons through what have historically been called illustrations. Donald Grey Barnhouse, longtime pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, compiled the most famous collection of such sermon helps in a book titled, appropriately enough, Let Me Illustrate. Illustrations I have found Read the full article…
At the 2015 New Room Conference, hosted by Seedbed Ministries, I led a seminar called Series That Pop And Sermons That Stick. So the Seedbed folks recently asked me if I’d do a podcast on the same topic. The result is below, with my friend and Methodist pastor colleague hosting a conversation on Building Good Read the full article…
Churches are usually as quiet as, well, church mice in the days surrounding the 4th of July. But not here, and not this week. Instead, the people of this church are in the midst of a wide array of ministries this week, and I suspect that most of you don’t even know it’s happening. So Read the full article…
Where do I start? This sermon had so much I was excited about even before delivering: A literary reference to John Irving that I don’t think came across as highbrow but instead helped people understand the book of Judges; A couple of shout-outs to United Methodism . . . neither of them all that complimentary; Read the full article…
