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 ...

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 ...

“Dwight L. Moody will preach on Sunday morning to a group of lumberjacks in upper Michigan. Martin Luther will preach on Sunday afternoon in a school-house in the mountains of Virginia. Charles Wesley ...

The greatest sermons I have ever heard were not preached from pulpits but from sickbeds. The deepest truths of God’s Word have often been taught by those humble souls who have gone through the ...

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.

The Rev. Albert Freeman was a preacher through and through. He started at 17 in a small church in Nova Scotia and continued preaching until last summer in Tangerine. Freeman of Zellwood, a minister at ...

Decades of listening to sermons have convinced me of these four truths. By any account the past six months have been the hardest time in my life. The challenges of keeping a university safe and open ...

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 ...

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 ...