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 ...

The Sermon on the Mount is considered the greatest sermon ever preached. In analyzing this sermon, one will at once be struck by the contrast between its delivery and that of the Law on Mount Sinai.

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Moby-Dick is the great American novel—an epic of the voyage of life, the story of man’s folly. It is also the story of man’s rebirth from the ways of death to the way of life, and if read as such, ...

There is a popular song that contains these words, “I overlooked an orchid while searching for a rose.” This is what happened to me recently, as a great personification of these words, when I was ...

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 ...