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.
Raising kids is a lot like negotiating with terrorists.
Trying to work things out with your children, helping them see that you’ve got to work out a balance between everything you need to get done versus everything they want to get (and get done). Even teenagers who understand this are always trying to tip the scale in their favor. They can be relentless. Raising kids is a lot like negotiating with terrorists.
Who Cleans Your Classroom?
This last Sunday in my sermon, I talked about how looking at life through the lens of Jesus Christ changes the way we see the hierarchies and pecking orders our society lives by. The cross shatters the labels we use: achievers vs. slackers, brilliant minds vs. not the sharpest tools in the shed; winners vs. losers. The ways of God are not our ways, and the Biblical witness is that those the world overlooks are very often the ones God uses to bring attention to His power and wisdom.
This is an illustration I came across last week. I was preaching about how the gospel of Jesus Christ shows up in so many of our great stories. The gospel is about what God has done for us—all that we cannot and could not do for ourselves—has been done through the death and resurrection of Jesus. It is good news—it is joyous news. Talk about joyous news…Ice Cream is good for you! Even if we don’t know why.
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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.”
Quotable Outtakes That Didn’t Make the Sermon This Week
“When you try to control everything, you don’t just exhaust yourself—you quietly replace trust in God with trust in you.” & more
There is a challenge when it comes to preaching the Word of God.
Preachers are called to open up and interpret the word—inspired and written down thousands of years ago—and make it relevant to a very different world. On top of that there’s a degree of persuasion that goes along with the process.
What Jessica Really Meant to Say in Her Sermon…
When Jessica or Rick or a guest preacher takes the pulpit it’s hard for me to write a One More Thing Blog. I can’t share with you what didn’t make it into the sermon because I have no idea, not having written or delivered it.