Preachers, you’re entering one of my favorite seasons of the year. Fall Stewardship Campaign Season. I wish it lasted all year long because if there was one thing Jesus had on his mind, it was money. He seemed to think it was a matter of...
Our world changed on September 11, 2001. During the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., our nation came face-to-face with our vulnerability. For the first time, many people came to the realization of their need for a Higher Power. As a Pastor...
"I’ll never forget it. Being a pastor in New York City on September 11, 2001 is seared in my mind." Tom Tewell opens his first devotional with these powerful words that recall one of the darkest hours in American history. Read more about how he was...
Over the last two years, I’ve transitioned from being a parish pastor with weekly preaching responsibilities to a position which allows me to do intermittent guest preaching and to listen from the pews more frequently. This transition is teaching me a lot about my own...
If I were to recommend one book this summer for you preachers, it would be Talk Like Ted: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds by Carmine Gallo. It’s not a preaching book, per say, but it is a book about the...
From Guest Writer: Mark Ramsey Pastor of Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX. When I became a parent several years ago, I was amazed at the unsolicited advice about everything from sleep schedules to food ideas to nap routines to socialization regimes. In the much...
How did Jesus’ original followers remember their Lord’s messages years after they heard them? Were they such attentive listeners that they remembered the messages for a long time? Or, was there something distinctive about the way Jesus presented the content and connected with His audience...
From Guest Writer: Rev. John Lovelace Cantelow, III Senior Pastor of Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL Paul says in Romans 10:14-15(NIV), "How, then can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they...
“To set apart one day a week for freedom, a day on which we would not use the instruments which have been so easily turned into weapons of destruction, a day for being with ourselves, a day of detachment from the vulgar, of independence of...