A stranger walked into church one day, a Sunday naturally. He was carrying a Bible which should be a good sign but in the modern era, it’s sort of a danger sign, I mean, how many of you carry a Bible to church. We’ll get to asking why we don’t later on. He had that […]
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I don’t know if the Bible or the Gospel of Christ is a valid testimony vis a vis whether or not Debbie and I should buy a new car, buy the car we’ve been leasing, or lease a new one. I’ve looked for the Book of Advice, or maybe the Book of Trivialities but I […]
“Oooooh, you shouldn’t have done that.” Almost all of us have had that thought race through our heads at one time or another. Most people have one or two moments in their lives that bring to them thoughts of shame and a fear of that one moment being exposed to others. Even pastors. There’s probably […]
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This week’s scriptures can be found here So many times I have heard this morning’s scriptures preached as the “don’t get too big for your britches” scriptures, some kind of warning against being prideful, or even being proud. This is seen as some kind of exercise in humility, a habit you need to get into […]
Tags : already, Christ abides, humiliation, humility, lectionary, Micah, parable, prideful, proud, scriptures, Son of God, truth, works righteousness, WWJD
There are things I know about quite a few of you that you’d probably rather I didn’t mention in church, or in front of other people at all. It is an odd position to be in, as Pastor, to know things, to know family secrets and to have seen people at their most vulnerable, or […]
Tags : confession, confessional, fallibility, forgiveness, Geraldo, honesty, isolation, Jesus Christ, naked, realistic, Swaggart, truth, TV, vulnerability, vulnerable
Just showing off the glory of God’s Kingdom as expressed in my front yard! We have a strange relationship with the word Bravery in the world these days. We love the notion of bravery, but the world we have and are still creating does little to promote bravery, actual bravery, where you do something even […]
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