The last few weeks, I have been really sick. Nothing life-threatening. Fevers. Vomiting. That sort of thing. My kids keep picking up junk from school and lovingly passing it on to me. Being sick is no fun. And, as a…
It is a sad reality today that many churches are simply not reaching many people for Christ. No, it’s not all about numbers. Yes, fellowship and discipleship are important. But if we are trying to follow the great commission, why…
I have a friend who is really into rebuilding old cars. It is an art form to take a rusted-out car from the scrap heap or auction lot and restore it to better than new condition. He once told me…
The longer you have been a Christian, the more in danger your preaching is of suffering from the Curse of Knowledge. It becomes easy to assume that everyone believes some of the weird, miraculous, or difficult truths in the Bible. It becomes easy…
Choose your words carefully. Your words are immensely powerful. A destructive word can be devastating. A constructive word can change a life. The Bible says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it…
It was Saturday night. I sat down to put the final touches on my sermon for the morning. I wrote the sermon quite a while ago in my process of getting ahead. I dusted my sermon off earlier in the…
This week the Rocket Company held the 2014 Preach Better Sermons online conference. There was a ton of great content. Here are some of my notes from each speaker. Judah Smith What makes the good news so good is that…
Are you looking for the best Easter videos to add a little something extra to your church’s Easter services? Most churches don’t have the budget to hire someone to create videos for them. Fortunately, there are a lot of great…
Easter Sunday is like the Superbowl of preaching. This may be your largest attended service of the year. Statistically, people are more open to visiting a church on Easter (and Christmas) than any other time of year. Because of this,…