A BAPTIST PREACHER, TWO SONS, AND A DOG…4/8/08

by Steve

Here’s one of my all-time favorite stories from the pages of American history.  It needs no comment from me.  You can draw your own conclusions. There was a Baptist preacher who had two sons who had really taken to an old stray dog.  The dog was as black as coal, except for three very distinctive [...]

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THE POPULARITY TRAP…4/07/08

by Steve

What a tremendous temptation there is for every pastor to fall into the popularity trap!   I don’t know a single pastor anywhere who doesn’t want to be popular.  All of us want our people to love us, all of us want to avoid strife, arguments, and confrontations.  But far too many of us try to [...]

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