Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Sunday by Sunday, as Christians gather together, everybody has a limp. For some it’s visible, for others it won’t be apparent just to look at them, but we are not the people who have it all together and who have had perfect lives. But in our fragmentations and past …
Songs of preparation: In You, LORD, I Take Refuge (Psalm 31), Never Alone, and Hosanna, Loud Hosanna Prayer of Approach and Confession: God, our refuge and deliverer; the one in whose hands our times are held; the Lord who preserves his people according to his goodness; we confess our need of the sacrifice that Jesus …
From William H. Willimon on the Biblical Word: …Scripture is not merely a helpful resource for preaching, it is the genesis of preaching, the rationale for preaching, the substance and the means of preaching. When we preach from the Scriptures, to the congregation, the Bible is living in its native habitat. It is functioning as …
From the Valiant For Truth blog, a pastor’s reflection on listeners who want to leave a sermon having heard the Gospel referenced, but who really want a list of things to do and not to do. I once had a colleague tell me that a wealthy businessman and member of his congregation privately approached him …
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