Okay time for 3 totally unrelated things. One: A children’s sermon gone slightly awry. I was the guest speaker in a church recently, and I was asked to do the children’s message. I wanted to talk about Saul’s conversion in Acts chapter 9. To illustrate my point (and keep the kids’ attention) I brought in […]
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Who are Paul, Barnabas, and Timothy? People you need in your life. Who first came up with the idea that these guys are important? I don’t know, but the first person who told me was Terri Smith. These people are in the Bible (I’m talking about Paul, Barnabas, and Timothy. Terri’s not in the Bible,
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I went to Disney World recently, and I have two experiences to write about. We got to our hotel the first night and I needed to get something from the car. As I got on the elevator, there were two women who were in the middle of a conversation. Woman Number One said to her
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Recently, Lee Strobel was at my church, Wallace Memorial Baptist, and he had an excellent message. He had 4 points that all started with the letter E. Sometimes preachers have to kind of shoehorn their words to make that style work, but Strobel’s message sounded like he wasn’t reaching–his most logical points all really did
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Was it “The Karate Kid III” (I think it was) where Mr. Miyagi and Daniel-san had a falling out? The Kid (played by an actor who was probably at least well into his 20s by the third movie) wanted to fight in a karate tournament for 18 -year-olds, but Mr. Miyagi doesn’t agree. The Kid
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