Athletes call it being “in the zone.” Psychologists describe it as a state of “flow.” Musicians say it’s like being “in the pocket.” It’s that transcendent moment when time seems to slow down for an ...

But pastors need inspiration, too. Just as musicians have their favorite songs, most preachers have an internal playlist of the most unforgettable sermons they’ve heard. And at the top of the playlist ...

I asked some of the nation’s best preachers to talk about the best sermon they ever heard. The pastors who responded know something about the power of the spoken word. All three are homiletic ...

“I Have a Dream” may be the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech, but it wasn’t really a sermon as it was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and was more about civil rights ...

A preacher who confined his work almost wholly to preaching, who held but three rectorships in the thirty-three years of his ministry, who took almost no part in any organization outside of his parish ...

Kids do say the darndest things, and with decades of pulpit experience, the Rev. Joe McKeever has learned these revelatory remarks often happen just after church. In one case, a parent shared a ...

About 200 students gathered on a on sidewalk in the middle of the University of North Texas campus to counter messages brought by the National Conference of Street Preachers, who for a second day in a ...

Preaching at the Areopagus, they laughed at him. Only a few were converted. Evangelically speaking, Paul’s famous sermon given before the good and the great of Athens was not all that successful.