By Parson Brown, on 10:40 am%
That was of course Marshall McLuhan bemoaning the vast wasteland of TV. The more serious point is that particular mediums (TV, books, radio, talking, letters) are not just tubes to deliver something, but they mold or form the message itself. Books are solitary, serious and heavy. TV is fast and visual. . . . → Read More: The medium is the message
By Parson Brown, on 8:58 pm%
This link has a Sullivan reader giving his logic on why suffering should lead to atheism.
Here is the simple Christian answer. We have done something terribly wrong and its fouled up this entire existence. To our relative way of thinking our petty sins aren’t that bad. But to the absolute standard of . . . → Read More: Suffering & A “Good” God
By Parson Brown, on 6:36 pm%
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I’ll just say I hated the text this week. It was harsh and rough, and I couldn’t escape it. Everything I read to prepare for preaching just lead deeper into the heart of repentance. Everything lead to heart rending stories. A better preacher would have been more winsome. . . . → Read More: Deep Lent
By Parson Brown, on 12:10 pm%
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Sermon Text: Mark 5:21-43
In this sermon I did something that probably would have received low marks from seminary profs. I probably strayed too far into allegorizing the text for the application. That is part of the reason why the opening includes the remarks that the reading might be idiosyncratic. It probably . . . → Read More: Sermon – “Daughter…” – Mark 5:21-43