Category: Outlines and Illustrations

Introduction (Verses 1-16) – What gets you excited? For me, the number one thing is […]

Introduction: In my morning sermon today, I talked about the way in which secular society […]

Introduction: This week I was talking to a preacher who just celebrated his 70th birthday. […]

Introduction: In 1973, J. Paul Getty III was kidnapped in Rome and his captors demanded […]

As I’ve studied the book of Philemon, one verse has taken me be storm: Perhaps […]

(This entry is adapted from my sermon for February 6, 2011.) If there was ever […]

Luke 6:1-11 contains two stories involving the Sabbath Day. In the first, the disciples are […]

Introduction: The first half of Luke 4 has a lot to teach us about dealing […]

Some time ago while we were ministering in Jackson, Mississippi, Katrina and I visited the […]

Introduction: Mark Bittman is a well-known cookbook author and food writer for the New York […]

On this week in which we celebrate the birth of Christ, our primary source of […]

Introduction: For many years I thought that “faith” was primarily an intellectual and a spiritual […]