Sermon Video Introduction: This is a remarkable period in the history of our congregation. We have never seen growth like this before, and all of us are getting used to the new situation. Of course, ...
Permit the Children
Too High and Too Low
“It seems to me that a large part of the troubles and mistakes of our pastoral life come from our having too high an estimate of men’s present condition and too low an estimate of their possibility”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 73
Like Flammable and Inflammable
“But he also had been around long enough to know that he ought to get some other things set in motion regardless. Or irregardless. He was never sure.”
Ecochondriacs, p. 155
Think Long and Hard, Murray
Inspiration, Not Comfort
Ineffective pastoral care “tries to meet the misfortunes of life with comfort and not with inspiration . . . The truest help which one can render to a man who has any of the inevitable burdens of life to carry is not to take his burden off but to call out his best strength that he may be able to bear it”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 71
Or Thirteen Maybe
“On the right side was an armchair in which sat one Rocco Williamson, a man who appeared to be about as pleased as a hen with twelve chicks.”
Ecochondriacs, p. 151
The Content Cluster Muster (06.24.21)
The Bible Doesn’t Whisper: A Shadowed Open Road: As always, more can be found here. Jokes I Like to Tell: One time a motorist was driving down a stretch of road right on the edge of town, and the road happened to run by a mental hospital. When he was right next to the hospital, …
Be Both
“The preacher needs to be pastor, that he may preach to real men. The pastor must be preacher, that he may keep the dignity of his work alive. The preacher, who is not a pastor, grows remote. The pastor, who is not a preacher, grows petty . . . Be both; for you cannot really be one unless you also are the other”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 70
Different Thresholds
“Maybe Del Martin wouldn’t want to immolate himself on national television. That was certainly possible. Not everyone can avoid being a sissy”
Ecochondriacs, p. 145
When Bacteria Bleat
Introduction: One of our great problems in the church today is that we have forgotten some of the basics when it comes to giving an answer for the hope that is in us (1 Pet. 3:15). Unbelievers, created as they are in the image of God, have a deep desire to be rational and human, …
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