Randy Alcorn speaks with Julia (Stager) Mayo on the issue of whether or not abortion is too controversial to address from the pulpit. Randy filmed this video in support of the Oregon 2014 Citizen Initiative to stop taxpayer funding for abortion. For more information visit their site: www.oregon2014.org

Randy Alcorn speaks with Julia (Stager) Mayo on the issue of whether preaching on abortion conflicts with preaching the gospel. Randy filmed this video in support of the Oregon 2014 Citizen Initiative to stop taxpayer funding for abortion. For more information visit their site: www.oregon2014.org.

Randy Alcorn talks about the dangers of presenting the Christian life and gospel as boring. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

In Charles Hummel’s booklet Tyranny of the Urgent, which I read as a young Christian thirty-five years ago, he said that what is urgent is often not important, and what is important is typically not urgent.

My normal approach to Bible study is to pore over texts that relate to something on my mind and heart. Sometimes this has been prompted by my research on current book projects.  

Charles Spurgeon preached to something like ten million people in his lifetime, sometimes speaking ten times a week at various locations. His sermons were transcribed as he spoke. 

It is often difficult to confirm the accuracy of a story, including this one printed in the Christian Digest and cited in a collection of stories assembled by Paul Tan. It wouldn’t surprise me to find it is accurate, but in any case the point of the story is a valid one, and I have seen it illustrated in less dramatic ways in my own life and in the speaking ministries of others.

C. S. Lewis’ advice to children on writing is good advice to pastors on preaching, or anybody on talking.