Reducing the Gospel

The minister is constantly tempted to reductionist strategy for making the Christian gospel intelligible, rather than helping strangers to discover through ...

The Hurt of Healing

The old original wounds must first be probed in their depth before there can be healing. The Scripture compares sin with the wound of the soul, and says ...

Father Forgive Them

During the summer lull between graduate school studies I outlined my sermons for the coming fall. At the end of August I submitted the sermon titles for ...

The Test of a Preacher

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

You Can't Climb for Others

You cannot pull people uphill who do not want to go; you can only point up.

Where Are the Replacements?

There were great preachers in Washington thirty or forty years ago, but, with a few notable exceptions, their replacements have not arrived as yet. The ...

The Triumph of a Preacher

Several years ago, I heard David Ring speak. David has cerebral palsy and a speech impediment so bad that you can barely understand him. But he held 11,000 ...

John Cennick: Sensational Lay Preacher

John Cennick (1718-1755)

Sensational lay preacher

Though trained as a land surveyor and writing instructor, John Cennick once was asked to fill in for an ...

The Passing Parade

If anything should put the "superstar" in his place, it's the fact that an interpreter's fame is ephemeral. ... The main thing is that the composers will ...

A Pessimistic Compliment

Donn Moomaw is sort of a larger-than-life person, so he has a lot of larger-than-life stories that are really funny. This is true. When he was preaching ...