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.”