Fourth, use strong, gripping illustrations ... with gripping stories or word pictures to get them from our hearers’ heads to their hearts. Finally, soak your sermon, before, during, and after ...

“This is not a forensic law enforcement investigation but a witch-hunt that should not form the basis of a Washington Post story ... to a transcript of the sermon. He encouraged anyone ...

From medieval psalters to the oils of Gustave Courbet, the Louvre has organized one of the most comprehensive surveys of a ...

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This woman took a can of Spam from one of her dad’s sermons. She hid it in his house for months, but that wasn’t the end of ...

It was a sermon. Have you ever been traveling and had to visit a church ... Without reading aloud the passage at all, the preacher referenced the sheep-and-goats story found in Matthew 25:31-46. In ...

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Space only permits one brief illustration, for which I have chosen Julius’s ... He quotes verbatim a popular medieval ‘miracle of the Virgin’ sermon-story preached in a sermon by Herbert Losinga, ...

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Spoilers for “Beloved” (1987) ahead. “Beloved” (1987) by Toni Morrison is the most transformative novel I have ever read.

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