Tag: preaching
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PREACHING DURING ADVENT (ADVENTUS PREACHUS)
Next Sunday (December 2) is the first Sunday of Advent. Although I am a Baptist by conviction, I am a liturgist by affection. The longer I live (yea verily now I am in my 40th year–or in biblical metaphor, this is the year I kill an Egyptian) the more I see the need to emphasize…
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FINISHED WITH COMPLICATED KING DAVID
That’s it. I’m done! Yesterday I finished the 8 week series on the relationships of King David. You can hear them all on podcast on the tab from my blog or on iTunes. I edited down yesterday’s sermon quite a bit. As I sat in my study Sunday morning it seemed the sermon was too…
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TOO MUCH FUN NOT TO WEIGH IN ON: PREACHING’S 10 COMMANDMENTS
So, everyone thinks David Letterman invented Top Ten Lists, but we all know God did. At least Letterman stole from a good source. At various times in my life I’ve made “Top Ten Lists” for leadership in our church or for membership or for staff or etc… and I always try to have fun with…
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LEARNING FROM NAVY SEALS
A man in our church (thanks Mike) loaned me his copy of the book No Easy Day by Mark Owen. It is the biography of a Navy Seal who was part of the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. I just started the book last Friday, and then I got bogged down with church (work…