What Pastors Can Learn From The Tesla Cybertruck Fail

What Pastors Can Learn From The Tesla Cybertruck Fail

A Tesla demonstration for their new Cybertuck recently went viral for all the wrong reasons. While presenting their new Cybertruck to the world, Tesla claimed that their new “armor glass” was near indestructible. So, they picked up a baseball-sized steel ball and threw it at the driver’s side window. But to the shock and awe…

5 Common Preaching Mistakes Many Pastors Make

5 Common Preaching Mistakes Many Pastors Make

Being a pastor is hard. There may be no calling that is greater or more difficult, especially when you carry the five-hundred-pound expectation of preaching a mind-blowing, original sermon every seven days. Because it’s so hard, many pastors make simple preaching mistakes that can be easily corrected. These common mistakes are often the difference between…

The Bible – A Forgotten Source For Sermon Illustrations?

The Bible – A Forgotten Source For Sermon Illustrations?

Great preachers are great story tellers. Jesus is the perfect example (literally). Sermon illustrations are important. They wrap heavenly ideas and in earthly examples. For this reason, I always collect good illustrations when I find them. Get some from my personal collection here. In fact, a good illustration is often the most memorable part of…

Winchester Mystery House (Sermon Illustration)

Winchester Mystery House (Sermon Illustration)

Without a purpose for your life or ministry, you will have a lot of activity with little progress. Nestled in the suburbs of San Jose, California, is an interesting tourist attraction: an estate built by the heir of the Winchester rifle fortune. In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a thirty-eight-year construction project guided…

Children Suffer From Secondhand Stress (Sermon Illustration)

Children Suffer From Secondhand Stress (Sermon Illustration)

Does our busyness negatively impact our children? In the “Ask the Children” survey, researcher Ellen Galinsky interviewed more than a thousand children in grades three through twelve and asked parents to guess how kids would respond. One key question asked the kids what one thing they would change about the way their parents’ work was…