If you have attended church for any length of time you have been there – that sermon that you sat through while looking at your watch thinking, “When is this guy going to shut up?” The question becomes, “Is that a spiritual question or secular one?” When it comes to preaching, how should the message… Continue reading How to Bore People to Death With Preaching
Some of you may have grown up like me. You went to Sunday School every week. I still remember some of my teachers, the little snacks we got, the uncomfortable clothes my parents made me wear (love you mom), the songs we sung, and most of all the flannelgraph. For those who don’t know what… Continue reading Flannelgraph Theology
Sometimes life is rough. In fact, sometimes life is more than rough, it’s bleak. Life can feel like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. We could talk for hours on how to work ourselves out of such a place. One thing we can do when we are feeling this way is… Continue reading How to Cry Out to God
There are main purposes to every passage in Scripture. I want to look at the book of Jonah, but I don’t want to look at the main purpose, but something I noticed that is secondary in the book. It deals with how we can help others. In the book of Jonah we see someone running… Continue reading Your Worry Through Your Friends Problem
