In fact, that’s what preaching is all about. Rick Warren's preaching has a purpose. He expects people to turn from their old ways. Here are some of his principles on preaching for life change: 1. All ...

“There is something greater than Jonah here” (Luke 11:32). Jon 3:1-10; Lk 11:29-32 Just what is the sign of Jonah? Because the imagery is so compelling in the story, we think of Jonah going down into ...

How we can change the angry cultural debates online and in church. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther is said to have posted 95 theses, or “Disputation on the Power of Indulgences,” on the door of All ...

Perhaps the one word most needed in our age of addictions is the word that seems to be missing from our vocabularies. In his classic devotional book, “My Utmost For His Highest,” Oswald Chambers wrote ...

ACTON, Mass. — According to the Rev. Ed Schroeder, Sept. 11 left all Christian preachers with an enduring message to keep delivering: Repent, one and all, for God is clearly angry with America. “The ...

2 Peter 3:9. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise of coming again but is long-suffering and taking His time for the ...

Today is the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Our Gospel reading comes from Mark 1:1-8 about the Preaching of John the Baptist. “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ (the Son of God). 2 As it is written ...

Karl Barth’s well-known story concerns his move out of liberal theology—which he had learned from his teachers Adolf von Harnack and Wilhelm Herrmann—into his own formulation of a dialectical theology ...