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"Don't preach at me!" How many times have you heard that used in a TV drama - in heard - even said it - in real life? Hav...

Nancy Duarte's talk at TEDx East from Duarte Design on Vimeo . She basically dissects what makes great speeches great. Really interes...

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In a couple of hours or so, I'll be standing before the people at New Hope Baptist Church and opening the Word of God's message to...

"What did you learn today via the sermon?" "That there's still a bishop of the church in Philadelphia." arrrrrrrrrrr...

Evotional.com - Originality, Authenticity, Creativity If I had to summarize my approach to preaching right now it'd be: let it rip. I fe...

"How do you know what to preach about?" Had a few people ask me that down through the years. Some sermons are driven by the calend...

So I'm reading a newsletter today online and happen to glance at an ad in the right frame of the webpage. It's for the website of a...

If you can figure out what the heck is going on in this picture, then perhaps you stood a better chance than most at grasping some of my tra...

Have you ever had a thought that really gripped you, but you got pulled aside into other things and promptly forgot about it? I have, but I ...

There are some places in the Scriptures in which I just want to step back and say, "Thank you, God." It seems Eugene Peterson got ...

When I was entering into this calling as a pastor, one of my pastors told me that one of the main maxims he had always heard about that role...

From Steve Brown's blog today: I have a friend (you would know his name…he's a famous Bible teacher) who was introduced at a Bible c...

This week's "iLife" sermon could have come right off the pages of our local newspaper. "iHurt" This is a small commu...

It's late Sunday evening, and I'm about to follow my wife to bed and call it a day. It's been a full one. But like most of the p...

Tomorrow morning I'll be kicking off another series called "Blind Spots." The idea is to get at some of those places in our wa...

Great day together began with worship this morning. We debuted a new song that really fit with the overall theme. I was tackling the "p...

I've been fussing with the message for tomorrow morning for a while now tonight, and I think I'm calling it a day. This "Big Qu...

It's a rainy Saturday here. That cuts short any plans on a "surge" against the grass and weeds for now, and colors any ideas a...

This term at Rockbridge is winding up, and the course I'm taking "Understanding Cultures" is beginning to come together for me...