I'm grateful to Smyth & Helwys for the opportunity to write this year's Annual Bible Study. You can get your copy today here. ...

June 7: The Fight Before Dinner from phpccommunications on Vimeo . Preachers don't always need illustrations from modern life to co...

"Sometimes preachers cannot help but envy other users of words in our culture. News anchors, analysts, comics, pundits, and savants: Th...

Fred Craddock passed away yesterday, March 6, 2015. I had his classic textbook, Preaching , open on my desk this week. Whenever I feel lik...

Dr. Jim Somerville is the pastor of First Baptist Church, Virginia. I have admired his preaching for a while now. He is always succinct, alw...

"The first time I preached a proper sermon, my mentor gave me some good advice: your praying and your preaching should be of the same l...

"In the act of preaching something dies and something rises. What dies (or should die) is the preoccupation with the self that plagues ...

The God of Hope from Peachtree Christian Church on Vimeo .

"I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone ...

“One must not forget that there are two kinds of preaching difficult to hear: poor preaching and good preaching.”   - Fred Craddock, Preachi...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. ...

As we draw near to the first day of school, I find myself thinking back over my own school year. I had some great teachers through the yea...

Last week I attended the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's General Assembly. As always, it was a fun time to catch up with friends from s...

You know that empty feeling you get after a sermon that's tanked? Yep, the one that makes you want to crawl in bed for the rest of the...

"A sermon that is not directly drawn from Scripture is orphaned, however bright or clever it may be." - Fred Craddock