Jean Claude was a mid-17th Century Protestant preacher in Nimes, France. Charles Simeon lists his General Rules of a Sermon. If you’re a preacher you will hopefully enjoy the reminders. 1) Should be Clearly and Purely Explaining the Text – “it is impossible to edify them unless you are clear” 2) Give the Entire sense … Continue reading
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
When A Legend Dies
So, I’m not writing this for anyone really but me. When a Legend Dies, Martin Luther King Jr, John and Robert Kennedy, James Dean, Elvis Presley all come to mind. When a Legend dies, it shakes the world. Their death isn’t worse than that of a “regular person” but the reach, the connections, the effect … Continue reading
Rest
Sunday I preached from Revelation 6:9-11 on the “Souls under the Altar” … they asked “how long Lord?” And God didn’t really give the answer they were looking for but he said … “rest a little while longer.” So … I included this poem to end my message REST I with Him He with me, … Continue reading
I Seek the Profit
Just a short word – Paul says in Philippians 4:16-17(CSB) “…you sent gifts for my need several times. 17 Not that I seek the gift But I seek the profit that is increasing to your account” Seems like I remember someone saying that we should not lay up treasures on earth, but lay up treasures in our … Continue reading
Caught Up
He is NOT a Thief, who steals away what he already owns; He is but an owner, a warrior to rescue, taking his goods back home; And So comes Christ , one day like a thief, when we do not know; To restore his blood-bought saints who are not forgotten or alone; He will take … Continue reading
My Convention Sermon 2019
I attended this last week’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting. If you don’t know how SBC churches work, we do not have a hierarchy that directs local churches top down. But we are a bottom up fellowship of cooperating churches. We cooperate for Missions and Kingdom Advancement, as well as for training pastors and providing … Continue reading
A Watch Man
Now I’ll say upfront, that I could go a whole different direction with that title, and talk about a watchman on the wall etc. and perhaps I will another day. But I wanted to share with you a few thoughts from a homegoing celebration yesterday of a fine man that passed into eternity. This man … Continue reading
Peace, Perfect Peace
I don’t usually do this, but I’m posting Hymn/Spiritual Song Text today. I was doing some reading this week and ran across a hymn text by Rev. Edward Bickersteth Jr. He was vacationing and heard a sermon from Isaiah 26:3-4 – thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee. Trust ye … Continue reading
Bearing The Yoke
Just a short thought about bearing the yoke, that is the struggles of life. MOST TIMES: we are trying to “lay God at the foot of our problems.” That is we try and bring God to our struggles and ask him to fix them, explain, them, etc. But by doing that, we are interpreting God … Continue reading
Cavalry or Calvary?
So, years ago, in a small Central Texas town, there was a church, a simple little L-shaped brick church. The Calvary Baptist Church. Great name for a church. They built a sign out front and painted the name of the church, “The CALVERY Baptist Church”. It was misprint that wasn’t noticed for a LONG … Continue reading
