The Jesus Guilt Cure
When I was in seminary, I remember reading a psychologist who said that guilt is healthy if it lasts no more than five minutes or results in a change of behavior. I put the book down and thought: “Lord, my life is nothing but an onion with layer upon layer of unhealthy guilt.”
Bible Summary That Works
I shared a bookmark in your bulletins yesterday. Here is another list that provided some inspiration for me in creating that bookmark...
Blessed are the Meek,
The Last shall be first,
Walk Humbly with Your God, etc.
This last Sunday we focused on how we go about discerning God’s purpose and plan for our lives. The conclusion I drew, in reflection on the scriptures, was that finding our place in this world and fulfilling our potential requires living with one eye on Jesus Christ and the other eye looking forward.
The Lord is my Constant Companion
Each week we are featuring a prayer that sets an example for the answered prayer we are emphasizing. This week we’ve got a prayer, based on the 23rd Psalm, which is called: The Lord is my Constant Companion. I invite you to make this prayer yours as you ask for God to give you peace.
Archived Posts
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.”
One of the Longest Benedictions I Ran Out of Time to Share
Maybe you know the story of how Joseph and Mary accidentally left Jesus at the gas station on their way home from Jerusalem. Well, not the gas station bathroom in Jesus’ case. Joe and Mary are far down the road before they realize Jesus isn’t with them...
So many quips and quotes...
So little time to preach
I wonder what Mary and Martha’s phones might look like:
* Martha = the open browser with 27 tabs
* Mary = the single window that matters
* Psalm 46 = God saying, “Close the tabs.”