John Newton on Preaching

“My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart and to heal the broken one.” – John Newton, clergyman and author of the hymn “Amazing Grace”


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Age and Religious Identity in America

Today’s guest post comes to us from Michael Lipka, a Senior Editor at Pew Research Center. The U.S. religious landscape is already in the midst of some dramatic changes when it comes to the growth or decline of people with certain religious identities. And while it is impossible to predict exactly how that landscape will shift in the future, some key … Read More


Nelson SearcyEvangelism, Growth Barriers, Preaching, Strategy

Hudson Taylor on Remembering God’s Power

“Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them.” – James Hudson Taylor


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John Albert Broadus on Preaching the Doctrines

“Brethren, we must preach the doctrines; we must emphasize the doctrines; we must go back to the doctrines. I fear that the new generation does not know the doctrines as our fathers knew them.” -John Albert Broadus  


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Top 50 Worst Countries for Christians

Today’s guest blog comes to us from Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra for Christianity Today. 2014 was the world’s worst year for the persecution of Christians in the modern era. Until 2015 surpassed it. The 2016 World Watch List (WWL) from Open Doors analyzes how African countries now outnumber Mideast countries on the list, affecting far more Christians numerically (though not as severely). Christian … Read More


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McGavran Monday – The Bridge of Faith

In honor of Dr. Gary McIntosh’s new biography of Donald McGavran, here’s today’s Monday moment: “ … the coming to Christ of Greeks at Antioch was unplanned and depended on the burning faith of some unknown Christians who were organically linked with both Jews and Greeks, thus forming a bridge between the two peoples…. This bond of relationship was the bridge over which … Read More


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What’s Your Conversion Story?

For those of you who didn’t mark your calendars, yesterday was the anniversary of an interesting date in Christian history: when Charles Haddon Spurgeon, prince of preachers, was converted. On that day in 1850, at the age of 15, Spurgeon heard the voice of God calling him in the words of Isaiah 45:22 through the sermon of a Primitive Methodist … Read More


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Fighting a Sinner’s Path – A Saturday Quote

“If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.” – Charles Spurgeon


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