Tonight many churches will have Good Friday services. If you are speaking at such a service and still don’t have your message nailed down, you might want to check out this brief message by Paul Barreca, pastor of Faith Bible Church in Vineland, NJ, whose son is deployed with the troops in Iraq. Each week he sends out …
Keith Drury teaches at Indiana Wesleyan University. Lately he has been studying his students to get some hints on what the next generation of church leaders might look like. He offers 25 prominent characteristics of the coming wave in the church. Here are a few that caught my eye.1. From larger churches, yet value smaller o …
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Check out the brand-new sermon CD covers Leah designed for the five CD sets we plan to offer. Click on the Stealth Attack cover and a slide show will come up on your screen. It will take you through the CD covers and the individual CD labels for all five sets. Leah did the designs and Josh helped post them on the Internet.O …
Check out the Newsweek-sponsored discussion/debate between Rick Warren and Sam Harris. Rick is the pastor of one of America’s largest churches and author of the mega-bestseller, the Purpose-Driven Life. Sam is a noted author and an atheist who recently wrote a provocative column called God’s Dupes.Newsweek intro …
Just received this email from a friend who serves in Nepal. Note that my friend uses “Lxxd” instead of “Lord” because of posssible email censorship in a country where Christians are often persecuted for their faith. Dr. Pritchard, I am writing from Nepal and am just so very thankful to hear the Lxxd speaking to you and thro …
At 10:30 AM CDT I am doing my first radio interview for Stealth Attack, my new book on spiritual warfare. You can listen live on KDOV in Medford, Oregon.The book develops the concept of “asymmetric spiritual warfare,” in which a weaker power uses unconventional tactics to counter the overwhelming conventional military super …
Last week the Pope made headlines when he said that hell is a real place. Addressing a parish gathering in a suburb of Rome, he said noted that hell “really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more.” He’s definitely right that we don’t talk about it very much, even in church.When was th …
Years ago I ran across a German proverb that says, “Begin to weave and God will give the thread.” I always thought that was an extremely good way to look at life. Hebrews 11:1 reminds us that faith is the “evidence of things not seen.” Faith sees what others can’t and acts accordingly. Faith thus is not a feeling but …
We have just posted a new sermon called Father, Forgive Them. Here is an excerpt:In order to come to grips with the healing power of forgiveness, we need two things: soft hearts and courage. Some of us have been deeply hurt by the things others have done to us. People have attacked us, maligned us, mistreated us, abused us, …