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The thrust that today's church needs more than anything else is preaching that will keep people awake!More laymen are crying out that they are bored stiff. They can hardly stand those services, yet they feel ob...

On a recent visit to the American Bible Society headquarters in New York City, I saw a significant item from church history on display there. It was a copy of the famous "Chained Bible."In 1539, the Great Bible...

As president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, David Allen Hubbard is involved in the training of hundreds of evangelical preachers. He is himself a popular preacher and lecturer, and is a...

The word "crisis" in English means a time when a particular situation must either go on, be reversed, or be changed in a new direction. It is a "decisive moment" or a "turning point" in the course of human exis...

Before becoming president of the seminary, I helped organize an informal meeting for pastors of large metropolitan churches. Three days each year, we gathered to share experiences and ideas, in what became for ...

Returning from church one Sunday evening, the elder, in response to his wife's question about the sermon, replied, "Well, Jean, I have just three comments. He read it. He read it badly. And it wasn't worth read...

Bit by byte, the computer is replacing legal pads and ball-point pens for more and more preachers.In the olden days (B.C. -- Before Commodore), we'd sit down at the desk with a cup of coffee at our side, six le...

The prophet Isaiah tells us that the Suffering Servant was a person "of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." Jesus himself lived out this way of life of the Messiah. He is the Chief Shepherd. You and I as preac...