“Every good sermon is heresy when judged for all the important truths left untreated” (Fred Craddock, found in Eugene Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. xiv).
Teaspoons and Waterfalls
“We cannot begin to thank God for all His mercies toward us. We are unaware of the vast majority of them — for instance, your liver at this moment is doing a number of things to keep you alive. Each of us, every day, is standing under a Niagara of blessings, and when we ‘give …
Of Course, If Southern Rock Had Been Jersey Rock, It Would Have Been Freeboid.
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Complex, Not Inscrutable
“God has built predictability into the world — every covenant comes with blessings and curses. We are encouraged to look at how we fare in order to understand whether we are living under the blessing of God. At the same time, our analysis of such things must not be wooden. We must be balanced and …
For Then Am I Strong
“A man must recognize the significance of his inabilities . . . A major step toward experiencing the power of God necessitates a thorough-going recognition of our lack of it . . . the preacher must recognize, and even revel in, his own human inabilities” (Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 143)
Dads and Daughters
My wife Nancy recently wrote a book entitled Why Isn’t a Pretty Girl Like You Married? The subitle goes “And Other Useful Comments,” indicating that the title does not directly reflect the views of the board, management, or staff of Canon Press. The danger of a book title like this is that a girl picking …
A Real Honor
I am looking forward to seeing what comes out of Nate’s visit to Florida tomorrow. He has been invited to go to a literacy event hosted there by the Bush family — you can read more about it here. As I have thought about this invitation (and you can believe I have been thinking about …
Jogging Corinthians
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #29 “If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are” (1 Cor. 3:17). In Paul’s argument, this kind of defilement is brought about by sexual …
Not Quite an Optical Illusion
“This is one of the curiosities of sanctification. The more someone progresses in the faith, the more they realize how far they have to go . . . The more we grow in grace, the more we understand how great grace is and how much it covers” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 199).
Because the Spirit Cares What He Wrote
“Christian preachers must never assume that a mutually exclusive decision needs to be made between painstaking exegesis and reliance upon the Spirit” (Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 141).