Breaking Free From the Dope of Acceptance
I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills… and flush them all down the drain.
I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills… and flush them all down the drain.
God has a master plan to unite all things to himself (Ephesians 1:10). Christ is at the head of this plan (Ephesians 1:22). His strategy involves the church fulfilling this plan (Ephesians 1:23). Christ has so identified himself with his church that it is said to be his very body, much as Adam described Eve…
Our gifts mean very little to God without real commitments to people. Wow! Please let that sink in for a moment. We all want to feel unique and gifted… and we are. We all want to feel like we have something special to offer God and the world… and we do. But the truth is,…