How to Listen to a Sermon: Becoming a Better Hearer

“Listening to a sermon is warfare. It requires training ourselves to identify the preacher’s main point and to wrestle with the questions the text raises. But how do we do that?”

From Enslaved to Shepherd: The Remarkable Life of Gowan Pamphlet

“Yet what we know about the rest of Pamphlet’s life is remarkable. He was a faithful pastor who preached freedom from sin through the gospel of Christ as he worked for liberation from the sin of slavery. Pamphlet was in the first generation of black evangelical leaders who gained respect among their white brethren without abandoning their distinct ethnic identity.”

The Only Way Out Is Through

Every difficulty presents a choice: out or through. School gets hard. Work gets hard. Training gets hard. Holding to your convictions gets hard. Marriage gets hard. Friendship gets hard. Church gets hard. Parenting gets hard. And, in different ways, you will be asked (by yourself or by others): out or through?