Obey God with Your Creativity: The Christian Duty of Imagination  In this article, John Piper discusses the idea that there is a Christian duty and biblical basis for using one's imagination. In fact, in using our

Why Staying In Your Church Longterm in Good for You Good relationships take time, not months, years. The same is true for church members. Yet, there is a pattern in many churches where just as

Here’s What Happened When This North Carolina Church Stood up to Discrimination In a time when churches are losing their voices of influence cities and municipalities are taking the opportunity to enact or interpret laws that discriminate

Why Discipleship is War The preaching of the word of God is a key way that God has ordained to shape men and women into the image of his Son. Hence, preaching is much more

No Excuses for Preaching Bad Sermons In the modern world there are tools all around that will help us in sermon preparation. Therefore, there are no excuses for bad sermons. However, relying too heavily on those tools

Real Sermons are Not Lectures or Moral Stories In this podcast (and accompanying transcript), Burk Parsons makes a clear argument that by preaching the pastor is serving his congregation, which means it is vital to

Pride and the Preacher Preaching has the potential to promote a sense of pride in the preacher. Preachers can often hear praises from their hearers and can be viewed as the people with all the

Center Your Sermon on Spurgeon's 3 R's  There are a number of methods for ensuring you present the Gospel fully when you preach and evangelize. According to Jeff Robinson, Spurgeon had a 3 R's method

Getting "Unhitched" from the Old Testament? Andy Stanley Aims at Heresy Pastor Andy Stanely continues to show a pattern of dangerous thinking in his approach to Scripture. He continues to treat the Old Testament as less

What the Bible Says About Leading Difficult People We've all said it, "That person is annoying." The problem with describing someone as annoying is that annoying is a not a character trait someone can have.