Verbal Abuse

The angry word is a blow struck at our brother, a stab at his heart: it seeks to hit, to hurt, and to destroy. A deliberate insult is worse, for we openly ...

Preaching with Fire

Audiences will listen to a very poor voice, as long as there's fire in it.

Information-Age Preaching

Not even from the pulpit can an audio-visual man be addressed as if he were a Gutenberg man. That doesn't mean he can only be spoken to audio-visually. ...

What Men and Women Talk About

Men and women don't necessarily want to discuss the same subjects, according to a recent poll of 1,000 adults by Bruskin Associates.

The leading discussion ...

Ask Someone Who Understands

I would rather be disagreed with by someone who understands me, than to be agreed with by someone who does not understand me.

Research on Communication

"Great Sermon, Pastor, I Didn't Understand a Word!"

J. Scott Armstrong, associate professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, ...

Audience Insensitivity

To speak about global issues to inner-city people with their problems and never speak to their issues is to fail them.

Bridge-Building

Preaching is essentially a bridge-building exercise. It is the exacting task of relating God's Word to our world with an equal degree of faithfulness ...

Acid Test for a Sermon

Here is an acid test for a sermon: Will it hold up if you change the setting from a public to a person-to-person situation? Take away the pulpit, the ...

Gentle Criticism

When you find it necessary to criticize another's work, these words by John Wanamaker should prove valuable: "Whatever you have to say to people ...