“There is no reason why, in the Bible as in Shakespeare, the minute study of parts should not be dangerous to the conception of the whole.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 105
Stay Away from Flattering Doctors
“Medical science is supposed to be about the pursuit of truth, not the pursuit of tolerable truths”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 64
Sounds Like Epistolary Reflux
Letter to the Editor: Regarding "The Changing of the Guard"—I say "AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!" I left the church where we had been ministering as lay leaders when the newly minted young 30-something ...
Heat Lightning
“The preaching which is wholly exposition men are apt to find dull and pointless. It is heat lightning that quivers over many topics but strikes nowhere”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 104
You’re Gonna Punish Somebody
“When a constitution was drafted for a free and virtuous people, and we try to make it work for a dissolute and wasted people, this will have the effect of declaring war on the few remaining citizens who want to live in a virtuous way.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 58
The Changing of the Guard
Introduction: Our impending cultural collision can be seen in what the Navy calls a “steady bearing rate.” If you see a ship off your starboard bow at 30 degrees, and then half an hour later, it is bigger, but still at that thirty degrees, that is called a steady bearing rate. If it keeps up, …
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Killing Ants with the Flat of a Shovel
Introduction: Last week we asked all of you to pray about a decision from the district court regarding our motion to transfer the Stickergate case from Maskow here up to the district court. That motion was denied on Friday because the current judge on the case had not requested it. What that means is that …
Marc and Kitty
This is a wedding with two central purposes. Most weddings are focused on just one central thing, which is obviously the exchange of vows, and the consequent establishment of a marriage covenant. That is second of our purposes here today, and we will certainly get to that. But the first thing we want to do …
The Prophecy of Micah [4]
Sermon Video Introduction: We have now come to the conclusion of the first cycle of Micah’s prophecy. Here we find a brief word of consolation, which, given what has come before, stands out ...
All the Doctrine You Know
“The truth is, no preaching ever had any strong power that was not the preaching of doctrine. The preachers that have moved and held men have always preached doctrine. No exhortation to a good life that does not put behind it some truth as deep as eternity can seize and hold the conscience. Preach doctrine, preach all the doctrine that you know, and learn forever more and more; but preach it always not that men may believe it; but that men may be saved by believing it.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 103