Preaching with Fire

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

Hell Is Serious

Charlie Peace, a criminal in England, on the day he was being taken to his execution, listened to a minister reading from the Word. And when he found ...

Feeling Isn't Everything

Ecstasy is no guarantee of orthodoxy or that Christian fruit will result.

Resolutions of Jonathon Edwards

Typical of many other serious young men of his day, the young Jonathan Edwards drew up a list of resolutions, committing himself to a God-centered life ...

Paul's Passions

Paul had a tremendous passion to see the saints mature, but he had equal passion to get the gospel out to those who hadn't heard it.

Faith Without Passion

Very few of us [Christians] could say with Paul's conviction, "For me to live is Christ." If we experienced this as a transforming joy, ...

Legalistic Strait Jacket

Nothing can choke the heart and soul out of walking with God like legalism. Rigidity is the most certain sign that the Disciplines have spoiled. The disciplined ...

Preaching for Life

Still thinking I had but little time to live,

My fervent heart to win men's souls did strive;

I preached, as never sure to preach again,

And as a dying ...

Words to the Dying

[My constant sickness] made me study and preach things necessary, and a little stirred up my sluggish heart to speak to sinners with some compassion, ...

Rousing the Lethargic Church

The church, if it expects to rouse from lethargy, must know why it exists and what God expects it to accomplish.