Tell Me The Dream (Thoughts for Preachers)

Tell Me The Dream (Thoughts for Preachers)

by | Feb 5, 2024

 Your Delivery is Critical.   Some preachers take off, fly up to 35,000 feet, speak for forty minutes and then land, maintaining the same delivery.  Same intensity in their voice. Same tone of voice, same, volume.  Same, same (shame) puts people to...
Enough

Enough

by | Feb 5, 2024

The Apostle Paul went to Jerusalem with an offering from the Gentile Christian to the Hebrews Christians. He had been collecting it for some months. He had written a reminder letter to the believers in Corinth (II Corinthians 8 & 9).  Apparently the idea...
Can a Missionary Drive a Cadillac 

Can a Missionary Drive a Cadillac 

by | Dec 3, 2023

Several years ago, I arrived in Chicago in the dead of winter to speak at Moody Bible Institute for three days. The school arranged for me to have a rental car, so when I picked it up, the attendant said, “Good news! You have been upgraded to a luxury car at the same...
Caught

Caught

by | Nov 19, 2023

Two couples recently resigned from the Missions Team at our church. They have been pillars in the missions effort here.  The young pastor (40 or so), and his associate (55 about years-of-age) had to be feeling the pressure of still achieving as much, of...
What’s in a Name

What’s in a Name

by | Nov 12, 2023

What’s in a name?  A great deal! When high school boys were to take a basic class in cooking and homemaking, the name “Home Economics” was a turn off.  For two years boys attended only grudgingly. It was not working.  The school board needed a new approach....