Remember the Point

“Much of our preaching is like delivering lectures upon medicine to sick people. The lecture is true. The lecture is interesting . . . But still the fact remains that the lecture is not medicine, and that to give the medicine, not to deliver the lecture, is the preacher’s duty.”

Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 102

Fight Next Month, Laugh Next Month, Feast Next Month, All at One Time

So next month, on September 9th-11th, I’ll be in Lebanon, Tennessee at the Fight Laugh Feast Network’s second annual conference. The topic will be The Politics of Sex. I’ll be speaking Friday evening, September 10th. My topic will be Gay Pulpits: The Politics of Feminism, Homosexuality, and Unfaithful Children. Other speakers include Voddie Baucham on …

Handicapped in the Sanctification Stakes

“Our bodies want sleep, air, sunshine, sex, water, meat, and so on. These desires are God-given, but because the world has been knocked cock-eyed by sin, they can become inordinate. Now, who among us was doing so well with all these bodily demands, the ones that came with the hardware already installed, that we thought to upload a few more dependencies just to show how good we are at the self-discipline? Oh, you know, Smith was doing so well with hunger, thirst, and lust that he decided to add nicotine and alcohol”

Devoured by Cannabis, p. 43