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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luke’s account of Jesus’ Passion offers a distinctive perspective: “The ordinary people are not only not complicit in the death of Jesus, but they repent of what has been done to him,” says Luke ...

Last week and this week, the Gospel has us make the acquaintance of John the Baptist. Last week, we were introduced to his mission in the Jordan Valley at a particular given moment to baptize as a ...

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 ...

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 ...