Aging Church
Today at church in Sedona we got to shake hands with a church member turning 100! The surprise was learning he was a member of the youth group!
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Great Preaching (Part II): Max Your Understanding in Preaching!
For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. – Colossians 1:9 Too much preaching is a reaction to something rather than addressing insights gained by…
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The New Driver
A televangelist and a homeless person both died and stood before the angel Gabriel. Behind Gabriel was parked a golden Rolls Royce. The preacher jumped behind the wheel and declared, “I claim this as mine!” There was silence in heaven. Then Gabriel decreed, “Yes. It is so!” And commanded the beggar to the back seat….
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The Preacher’s Crawl
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – St. Paul Preach: Crawl, Walk, Run! is not about how to preach, which is often a personal subject wrapped up in ego. Rather…
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The Agony of Preaching
Some helps for preachers and those who hear them “28 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. 29 For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.” – Colossians 1:28-29 (NASB) …
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“Walk Together Economics”
Step One: Design a replacement for the failed 401(k) Plan. Professor Daniel Hemel, University of Chicago Law School, presents a viable option – Professor Hemel’s retirement plan, as published by ThinkAdvisor, borrows the same model used by members of congress and other Federal employees: “A public option in the form of the Thrift Savings Plan, currently…
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Prayer Beads: An Essential Utensil in the Kitchen of Prayer
The above prayer beads area available at Unspoken Elements. Their guide for using the prayer beads is found here – https://www.unspokenelements.com/pages/how-to-use-anglican-prayer-beads
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“Prayer: Dare to be Honest with God!”
A ninety-something year old Mr. Sachs turned to me after a memorial service and said, “There are three stages in life … Youth … Middle Age and ‘You are really looking good!” Turn to someone and say, “You are really looking good!” One Friday in seminary, we attended what we thought was one of the…
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“Come and See!” Your Fabulous New Year
A bed by the window! There were once two men seriously ill in the same small room of a great hospital. Just large enough for the pair of them, with two beds, two bedside dressers, and a door opening on the hall, and one window looked out into the world! One of the men as part of treatment…
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a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance
Ecclesiastes 3:4 This was me, looking very Baptist, as the new pastor of Laveen Baptist Church, 1984. Back in my office, which was separated from Ruth Ann’s, the Church Secretary, by the mimeograph room. A mimeograph was a noisy device that demanded the user wear rubber gloves as it flung chemicals and ink all over…