Letter to the Editor: What if you made one of your books to contain a complimentary fake ID, based on a discount code field that only in-the-know people had and that actually makes the price ...
Letters About Our Incipient Criminality
Warning the Wrong People
“What we do need to do is go over the temptations faced by people who live in the proximity of money. Teaching on this is also found in Scripture, but we are not nearly enough on our guard about it. If someone in our congregation received a windfall inheritance of 100 million dollars, the chances are pretty good that this person would receive scores of warnings not to let it go to his head. All the people around that guy will not receive any warnings, and they are the ones who really need it.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 5
And What Money Always Does
“We need to remember that money will do what money always wants to do.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 4
A Biblical Defense of Fake Vaccine IDs
Introduction: It is certainly tempting to simply make the case by saying that a fake pandemic should have fake papers to accompany it, but that would be too easy, far too glib. I already have severe critics who struggle with their tendency to be censorious, and that would frankly not help. So I won’t start …
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The Prophecy of Micah [5]
Sermon Video Introduction: We begin the second cycle of prophetic ministry from the great prophet Micah. Remember that he ministered over the course of forty years or so, and yet was able to ...
Preach Like Your Own Self
“We are fit for no other life. There can be nothing more modest than that. It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be ads full a beech-tree as he can. Apply all that, and out of sheer modesty refuse to try to be any kind of preacher which God did not make you to be.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 114
Copycatting
“One danger is the obvious one of calling it cultural engagement when we are just drifting along with whatever it is the world is dishing up.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. x
Lay Up Before You Lay Out
“The principle is that you should take up the hard task of counting your shekels before undertaking the relatively easy task of spending them.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 2
And One Sees His Point of Course
Changing the Focus
“Our evangelism is not an attempt to helicopter victims out of a disaster area, but rather is the work of rebuilding a disaster area.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. x