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
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
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
So, in the growing face of division on the ethnic front, my frustration is often that the church is either silent, or so loud that you can’t hear, and generally loud about the wrong things. However, in the reality that the church, especially the church of a lighter hue of skin, is often silent on … Continue reading
Ian O’Conner reporting for ESPN today a aid “he is just lost in every possible way, literally and figuratively.” The story hit yesterday of Tiger Woods’ latest scandal and as the details came out this morning it just got worse and worse. Everyone will be piling on, but I want you to know what … Continue reading
We are well past this year’s observance of 9/11 but somehow my thoughts for that day didn’t get posted, but got stuck in my “DRAFT” box. So I am sending them again. A bad day? A tragic day? Certainly those things can be said and are true. Thousands of lives were lost that day. Lives … Continue reading
– Be in Touch with the Text – true to the text, context, interpretation, setting – Be in Touch with your Audience – the same message in Romania, Germany, USA, El Salvador will be different for that audience – Be in Touch with God – led by the Spirit – truly, don’t cop out and … Continue reading
