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.”