2 Timothy spoke with awful new force as I preached on it recently and it helped me to understand more of the terrible challenge facing our sisters and brothers in northern Iraq. If there are any left. The image over this post, if it is unknown to you, is the letter N, an abbreviation for ‘Nasara/Nazarene’, now
It was probably the most formative piece of feedback to a sermon I have ever received. I don’t remember what I had preached on, but I know I thought it was pretty average, and I wasn’t happy with it. Straight afterwards a friend came up to me and asked me how I thought it had
I nearly lost my nerve. I was preaching on Romans 12:1-8, about being a body with a variety of interdependent gifts. “Every Christian needs every other Christian to be fully engaged.” “You can have a day off from being a policeman, or a banker, or a performer. You just don’t get a day off being
The preacher was accomplished and confident; he held the concentration of the crowd, and he certainly had my attention. Although not for the reasons he would have wanted. He had taken one of the stories about Jesus, and explained it from the perspectives of the different characters involved, which is not necessarily a bad tool
It’s true that we get used to things, and don’t notice them after a relatively short period. We get used to the odd way you have to turn the handle on that door, the way that sign is unreadable. The stain on the carpet. Once, to focus our thinking, I unleashed a photographer on our
