Recently I was at a high school church camp. The last two days of camp we had some bad weather. Heavy rain forced the camp to shut down most of the outdoor recreation.Although the rain was pouring, it didn’t stop the crazy high school students from playing in the rain, and jumping in the mud. That…
I have a friend who is really into rebuilding old cars. It is an art form to take a rusted out car from the scrap heap or auction lot and restore it to better than new condition.He once told me that when you rebuild a car, you don’t just add the parts that are missing….
Many pastors have a sitting problem. We sit 90% of the day. We sit while writing sermons. We sit while answering email. We sit while making phone calls. We sit in meetings. We sit while counseling people. We sit at restaurants. We sit driving to work. We sit in Bible studies. Some of us even…
Early this summer my family and I took a trip to the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. We spent a whole week sitting and playing with our kids on the beach. It was a great, much-needed vacation… except for one part.My wife and I signed up for paddle board lessons. Paddleboards are like big surfboards…
The longer you have been a Christian, the more in danger your preaching is of suffering from the Curse of Knowledge.It becomes easy to assume that everyone believes some of the weird, miraculous, or difficult truths in the Bible. It becomes easy to forget that many people have serious questions and doubts about even the most basic Christian…
Ministry is never finished.There is so much to do. And there is always more to be done! You could always study more, pray more, plan more, email more, Facebook more, meet more, write more… more. more. more. If you aren’t careful, your to-do list can get out of control fast. Before you know it, your…
Choose your words carefully. Your words are immensely powerful. A destructive word can be devastating. A constructive word can change a life. The Bible says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” (Proverbs 18:21 ESV) Because of this, I take the words I…
It was Saturday night. I sat down to put the final touches on my sermon for the morning. I wrote the sermon quite a while ago in my process of getting ahead. I dusted my sermon off earlier in the week and worked in internalizing itSaturday night was my normal routine of practicing out loud,…
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