I was in over my head, and I knew it. During my senior year of college, I was called to pastor a rural congregation fifteen minutes off campus. My senior class friends were making the most of their ...

Preaching is the most sustained public act of ministry for senior and solo pastors. Preaching is also one of the most sustained intellectual and spiritual activities of senior and solo pastors. On the ...

One of my favorite classes at Southern Seminary was "The Ministry of Proclamation" (i.e. Preaching 101) with Dr. Hershael York, author of Preaching with Bold Assurance: A Solid and Enduring Approach ...

In this passage, God speaks to Samuel four times. The first three times, Samuel does not know that the voice he hears is the voice of God. He mistakenly assumes that his mentor, Eli, is calling him.

We have to remind ourselves that the effectiveness of a priest's preaching depends mainly on the state of his spiritual life. More than his intellectual caliber and his speaking and entertaining ...

You have probably heard the term “preaching to the choir.” For some of you millennials and Generation Z’ers out there, you may not even know what the choir is...because so many churches don’t have ...