A Word From My New Research Assistant
Being able to forgive ourselves—our ability to allow God’s amazing grace to uncover, weed out, and heal our guilt and shame—is never easy, but it is critical to our growth as children of God. The following is what the new, improved ChatGBT came up with in terms of articles online that might help—at least in a secular, psychological context. Go ahead and click on the links if you want to follow up.
Anger: It’s Worse Than You Think
You can’t be a faithful practitioner of Christianity if you don’t keep a tight rein on your words and how you share them with others.
Anger & Forgiveness
Reflecting on Ryan's message, and looking forward to sharing "We Do Need An Anger Wrangler" with everyone on June 2. See you on Sunday!
Below you’ll find my Artificial Intelligence response (ChatGPT) to the question: How would you improve the apostle Peter’s Pentecost Sermon from Acts, chapter 2?
Archived Posts
Not Just for Parents
Our current sermon series is about How To Talk Parent, but it doesn’t require any of us to be parents to appreciate the bits of wisdom OUR parents shared with us growing up.
If Not Higher
Here’s a story I wanted to use when talking about ‘what you do when no one is looking’ yesterday. It’s a wonderful illustration of what Jesus was saying in Matthew 6:1-6—do what you do because of who you want to be, not so that others will take notice and praise you.
The Perfect Church
There is an old joke about the perfect church. We talked just a little about the perfect pastor, but turnabout is fair play. It goes like this:
The Clothes You Wear
Sunday I talked about Joshua the High Priest having his filthy clothing replaced by a cleaned and beautiful garments. I also used the illustration of a boy becomes a dragon—who ‘wears’ dragon scales—and is stripped of those scales in order to be restored to a boy. In fact, I could have done the whole sermon around all the clothing imagery in scripture.
What just missed the cut for Sunday’s Sermon
Naaman’s servants may actually become one of the hidden gems of the sermon. They say, essentially: “If the prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would have done it.”