They called him a babbler. It wasn’t a compliment, either: spermalogos, which isn’t quite what it sounds like in English, but almost. Seed picker. Word scrapper. Someone who spouts childish, raggedy ...
Lee University’s Board of Directors has unanimously voted to name the university’s new center for Pentecostal preaching in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Paul L. Walker. Dr. Paul L. Walker served as the ...
The Apostle Paul was a great cheerleader for prayer. When reading his letters written to the various churches as found in the New Testament, he regularly underscores the importance of prayer. He tells ...
Can we hear the Gospel message? We have ears, why can we not hear? The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:3-9) brings to our attention the fact that not all of us hear the same message when the same ...
Preaching at the Areopagus, they laughed at him. Only a few were converted. Evangelically speaking, Paul’s famous sermon given before the good and the great of Athens was not all that successful.
Preaching to academics is not always an easy job for any homilist or evangelist and I speak from personal experience here. In Chapter 17 of the Acts of the Apostles we read the account of St. Paul ...
While Paul was preaching this sermon in the church which was in the house of Onesiphorus, a certain virgin named Thecla (whose mother's name was Theoclia, and who was betrothed to a man named Thamyris ...
It’s good for a homily to make you think. When was the last time it led you to pray? Seventeen years ago, Ricardo da Silva, S.J., heard one that did—and he never forgot it. He was a Jesuit novice in ...
DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I think you said once in your column that the Apostle Paul wrote his letters from prison. What was his crime? I'm in prison, and I know I deserve to be here, but why did a great ...