Politics will not cure all of our problems. Democracy will not save us. Jesus is the hope of the world, not the president. I write this on election day before we discover who will win this controversial nomination as the next President of the United States. Many people have cast their vote and their hope…
I was not prepared for the toll that truly following Jesus would take. And I am not alone. Just read this post I wrote about the difficulty of being a pastor. It struck a nerve! Hundreds of pastors wrote to me saying, “Me too!” If you truly follow Jesus, you will suffer. Whether in a…
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,…
Are you guilty of bad sermon math? No, I’m not talking about actual math. By sermon math I mean applying some form of change on the scripture you preach. Let me explain what I mean. There are four types of sermon math that will get you in trouble every time. + Addition Addition happens in…
The pretty pink princess, my four-year-old daughter, was playing on the living room floor. In meticulous fashion, she was placing her dolls in her doll house, each in a different room for the big imaginary party. But then came little brother. My 11 month-old boy, who we affectionately call “the bruiser,” came barreling in like…
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