Victor M. Parachin

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.”¹

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969), regarded by many as a master preacher whose sermons attracted huge congregations and radio audiences, articulated the above simple…

Four years after he lost his 25- year-old son in a mountaineering accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff wrote A Lament for a Son, an eloquent statement on the emotional pain a parent experiences at the death of…

Sixteen-year-old Naja was killed in an auto accident. When the news reached her father, actor Ben Vereen, he was simply shattered. "It was like someone had reached in and just ripped my heart out," Vereen recalls. Desperate to ease the pain,…

On January 9,1997, Tony DeMarco's world turned upside down. The Denver Post sportswriter received word that his wife, Maureen, 37, had died in a plane crash.

A chaplain from Detroit's Metropolitan Airport made the call informing DeMarco.…

During his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was greatly respected and greatly reviled. Blamed for plunging the nation into civil war, he was die president people loved to hate. Those who opposed his views regarding the…

Every minister experiences times of spiritual dryness. It is a subjective feeling that God is distant, aloof, even absent. During a time of spiritual dryness, prayers feel empty, hymns are sung without energy, sermons…

American advice columnist Ann Landers once counseled a 17-year-old girl to attend her best friend's funeral. She wrote in her column that "a funeral provides proof that the deceased is gone. It helps the bereaved…

Attitude. "People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes," declared William James. This is a thought in which to soak our consciousness because our attitude toward life will always be more important…

All his life, the young seminarian had been the model of success: good grades, good relationships, good work ethic. In seminary, he began to experience intense anxiety, depression, pervasive fatigue, insomnia, digestive…