Preparing a will can become an all-consuming task. There are so many important questions that need to be answered. How will you split your estate among your children? Which charities will get how much? Who will become your durable power of attorney? What should your health directive say? It’s important that you answer these questions …
As a pastor in the 20th century, a part of preparing sermons is coming up with the “phrase that pays.” Sometimes they stick, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes I don’t even rem…
The 4th Key to living a Biblical experience: Go But how do you know it's God telling you to go?
In solitude, we turn our face toward God who so loves this world.
I’m sure there are plenty of preachers who have fallen into a trap of being stuck instead of being unleashed to reach their audience for Christ.
Mentoring new believers is an essential step for preparing Christians to understand their new identity and serve Christ. Learn more.
The latest in a series exploring the intersection of faith and elections.
Facebook Twitter Email Print Most church members give little thought to the amount of time it takes a pastor to prepare each sermon. In reality, sermon preparation is a large portion of a pastor’s workweek. Unfortunately, this work is invisible to typical church members. They don’t realize the enormous amount of time it takes just …
The spiritual gift of speaking in tongues remains controversial in our day and is a subject deserving of our close attention. This short article is not designed to argue that tongues are still valid but simply attempts to describe the nature...
Building our lives around divine love will give our words the power to heal, to deliver and to save.
"God doesn’t call the qualified — He qualifies the called."
Most churches, when we visit them to speak in their worship service, give us between two and seven minutes to speak. It doesn't escap...
Do Americans still use biblical terminology accurately? Do we even understand basic faith-related terms anymore? Jonathan Merritt contends that our pluralistic society less and less comprehends common spiritual language.
To be honest and fair, I learned a lot in Seminary. Things I didn’t know before about God, theology, and evangelism. I listened to wonderful professors teach, preach, and share from their per…
Like good cooking, good preaching is local, idiosyncratic, and diverse.
{4:24 minutes to read} There is a saying that goes, “In heaven, there’s no talking, because men invented heaven.” OK, just kidding. The parable actually is that in heaven, everything is perfect, so speech is unnecessary. Everyone is content, fulfilled, and attuned, so no one need ask for anything. On Earth, we speak because something’s … Continue reading Validation—How We Speak Is How We Love
Some evangelicals are impatient zealots who burn for the gospels, others burn as well, but they have the patience and discipline of a monk. Yet all of them burn for the day when they can bring the cross to Jews.
Are we so set on being seeker-friendly that we neglect what it means to be a true friend to those walking through our doors? There seems to be a lot of confusion about love in our Christian circles.
Do you have the concept of “servant leadership” included in your personal mission statement?
Evangelism is counter-cultural. It's true everywhere on the planet, but perhaps it's especially so in our increasingly post-Christian Western society. We live in a polite culture, for the most part. Talk about religion? You just don't go there. Talk about…