Avoid object lessons involving live animals. It can all go wrong so easily. (Try to avoid asking children questions with all but the most obvious answers, for similar reasons.) The video below shows what can go wrong when a bald eagle is released in the auditorium at Oral Roberts University. While the situation of the …
Skye Jethani thinks that Man Of Steel – The Ministry Resource Site represents a low water mark in modern ministry of the Word. The website is published by a company that has been sponsored to produced Superman themed resources for churches to use in their ministries. The intro for the site says: Welcome to the …
From the June 2 edition of Starters For Sunday, published on the Church of Scotland website, offering commentary on Galatians 1:1-12. This is another for the ‘You all think I’m making this up’ file. What makes this example particularly egregious is, in addition to a hamfistedly bad interpretive application, it also manages to acknowledge the …
This is another one to file under the ‘You all think I’m making this up’ illustrations of what passes for Bible interpretation and preaching from around the world. HT to Michael Bird for this excerpt from a sermon preached by the leader of the Episcopal (Anglican) denomination in the USA. I can’t make this sort …
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