No, the purpose of this article is not to instruct you on what refreshments to serve when your pastor or elder visits in your home; but rather, it deals with how you may prepare yourself mentally and spiritually for a pastoral visit.                     God has given […]

Spring is approaching and many of us are taking inventory of our gardening tools. preparing flower beds and plowing the garden. No, an article from Farm Journal hasn’t slipped into The Outlook. I am not suggesting how to have a more successful garden, but I do want to consider cultivation—the cultivation of the human soul and […]

One of the greatly neglected means of grace in the contemporary church is fasting. Yet God teaches us to fast. In I Samuel 7:6, the people fasted in collection with repentance of sin; in II Chronicles 20:3, Jehoshaphat called a fast to seek the Lord’s favor and deliverance. BIBLICAL BASIS But fasting is not merely […]

Television has exerted a profound impact on our culture. It effects almost every area of life and among other things has powerfully effected public discourse, especially preaching. Preaching as a means of communication appears to many to be archaic. Because we are accustomed to visual stimulation and abbreviated verbal messages, it is increasingly difficult for […]