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 [...]
Just wanted to tell those of you who expect to be able to hear each week’s sermon on this blog: We’ve had technical difficulties, but have ordered a new CD recording system which should be up and running by 4/13. The sound quality will be vastly improved, but don’t know about the sermons! In the [...]
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, how appropriate to listen to a short sermon showing what can only be described as courage inspired by God…. Here it is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=b80Bsw0UG-U (click on link, or copy and paste into your browser’s address bar)
I said in a recent sermon that one of the most valuable characteristics that a pastor could have is thick skin, particularly if the pastor has a predeliction for preaching sermons on controversial topics. That would be me, but the problem is my skin is not nearly thick enough. However, I think that the pain I [...]
It’s amazing to me how often I hear from folks who are upset about God’s grace! Some folks seem to think that I make it “too available,” or too easy to obtain. I wonder if they ever read Jesus’ parable of the workers who were hired at different times of the day, but were all [...]
I hope that most of you have read Jack London’s masterpiece, The Call of the Wild. It is the story of a magnificent dog named Buck. Buck was half St. Bernard, half German Shepherd, 150 pounds of pure muscle. Because of his great size and strength, he was stolen, kidnapped off the streets of San [...]
One of the most important things I have ever learned (courtesty of Jack Spong) is that God is the source of life. It is God who made us and breathed into us and every other living thing the breath of life. It is God who pronounced that life is good, and life is a gift [...]
Someone sent me an email yesterday which contained a very biased view of a book being promoted by Oprah Winfrey. The title of the book is A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, by Eckhart Towle. The video attached to the email is an attack on the book, and of Oprah’s promotion of it. The [...]
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