Vale to Meat Loaf (1947-2022) Growing up in the 1970s Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) and Jim Steinman’s album Bat Out Of Hell was part of life. If they didn’t create the power ballad, they certainly perfected it. There was a bus trip where it played constantly. And it sounded subversive in a way that …
Phillips Brooks observes that a series of sermons constrains a preacher and that the challenge is to maintain a consistent vitality from beginning to end. Some evangelical churches that do not follow the lectionary use sequential expositions or series. While sequential expositions have the advantage of unfolding Scripture to the congregation week by week as …
Exhorting preachers to ‘never let men feel that you would gospel would be satisfied with mere decency’, Phillips Brooks makes the point that when addressing the outworking of sin the preacher should never leave their hearer with the sense that all we desire is modified behaviour. While challenging sinful behaviour, our true goal is to …
I purchased bluray copies of Frank Capra movies a while ago, but only got around to watching You Can’t Take It With You today. The movie received the Academy Award for Best Picture and Capra the Oscar for Best Director in 1938. Capra had a theme of guileless optimism overcoming cynical self-interest in his movies …
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