Graeme Bradford

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it" (Matt. 16:18).* Here Jesus used a figure of speech familiar to His listeners. From the gates of a city, an army went…

First Kings 13:1-32 is a good example of the complexity of the function of the prophetic gift. This passage and others challenge our neatly arranged conceptions of how the gift operates. Here we have a "man of God" who prophesied before the…

Preaching today is probably more difficult than during any other period in history. Today's preacher is under constant competition from mass media, television, and the Internet.

People who sit staring at…