A Minister is a Reminder

Being a minister is just reminding people over and over, and then reminding them again, of what is most important in life.

The World Needs Messages

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages. ...

Ministering at Any Age

Elizabeth Dole writes in Christian Reader:

My grandmother practiced what she preached and lived her life for others. When it became necessary for her, ...

Original Thinking?

Original thinking is seldom original.

Preach with Conviction

I think it was Goethe who said, after hearing a young minister, "When I go to hear a preacher preach, I may not agree with what he says, but I want ...

Civil Persuasion

[C]ivility, which I take to be a strong virtue and not simply wimpishness, requires that we not try to cram our beliefs down anybody's throats, whether ...

He Preached for Us

Martin Luther King, Jr., did not come preaching something new. He came shouting something we already knew: "You have said in your own Declaration ...

Throwing the Bucket

Charles Haddon Spurgeon said that preaching is like throwing a bucket of water at a row of bottles. Some of the water goes in some of the bottles. But ...

Can Others Hear Us?

The how of being people worth listening to is by letting our lives be filled with God Himself. The why of being people worth listening to is because ...

When We Love, God Acts

Once I was giving a talk to all of my [Jesuit] order's houses in the Midwest. I was the third speaker on a panel of three. I'm never nervous before ...