Spencer Strickland was not thinking about becoming a preacher until he visited the East Tennessee School of Preaching in Knoxville, Tenn. The then-19-year-old visited the school when his best friend ...

Always has been, always will be. Preaching is hard. Anyone who has ever sat with the Bible open, surrounded by commentaries, with a date circled on the calendar, knows what I mean. Words don’t jump to ...

A young man approached me after I'd preached on Mark 8:34 ("If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me"). I'd quoted Bonhoeffer: "When Jesus calls a man, ...

When Traveling Evangelist Del A. Fehsenfeld, 38, settled down last fall as pastor of the Argentine Baptist Church† in Kansas City, Kans., he started right out”preaching hard — hard against sin.” But ...