There’s no right or wrong way to praise the Lord, says the Rev. Samuel Cutler, as long as the same God is being worshiped. Cutler prefers to preach the old-fashioned way, delivering gospel messages ...
Recently I changed my entire sermon on a Sunday morning. This might not sound remarkable—I hear preachers do it all the time—but it was the first time I ever did it. It was horrifying. Thank God it ...
As I was finishing Steven Waldman's book on religious liberty and a re-read of H. Richard Niebuhr's magnificent Christ and Culture, three books for review arrived at about the same time, all of them ...
Father Daniel Cardó’s ‘The Art of Preaching: A Theological and Practical Primer’ contains a wealth of basic teachings for those aiming to learn or improve the art of preaching. Book cover of ‘The Art ...
Preaching at the Areopagus, they laughed at him. Only a few were converted. Evangelically speaking, Paul’s famous sermon given before the good and the great of Athens was not all that successful.
How inner transformation shapes outward proclamation. Your preaching is not God’s work. You are God’s work. I received this vision in a peculiar way. As I was minding my own business leading a ...
For the moment, the sitcom seems to have forgotten to be funny. Or to be thoughtful. Or that I might even be watching. There aren't many television situation comedies left, and one of the last ...
You learn a lot from the Bible. There are, first, the moral teachings: Love your neighbor, obey the Ten Commandments and so on. There are answers to the Big Questions: God exists; we are immortal; the ...
Temples become the schools for students At 8 am of every Saturday, young people gather at the Nhan My Pagoda in Tu Liem district in Hanoi to attend the Han script class, learn to write calligraphy and ...