By Parson Brown, on 1:35 pm%
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If I’m looking at this sermon critically – it is too much lecture and not enough preaching. Here is what I mean by that: a lecture conveys information while preaching reaches beyond that.
The core of the text (1 Pet 3:13-22) as I read it was a summary of Peter’s argument up to this point, . . . → Read More: Hope and Holiness
By Parson Brown, on 11:01 am%
In prepping for sermons and bible studies and teaching moments you become a hoarder of stray thoughts. The internet has only made that much easier because people actually write it down for all the world, and really good ones stay like tabs on my browser taking up space like all the junk in a house . . . → Read More: A few links I need to clear out
By Parson Brown, on 11:57 am%
Our litany of prayers on Sunday usually includes a line, “for all those in need…for all those in prison.” That line, even though as Christians we are supposed to care about prisoners (Matt 25:36), I’m sure is a stumbling block. The typical middle class response to prison is something like Paul’s line, “but if . . . → Read More: Sentences to Ponder
By Parson Brown, on 8:11 am%
There are a lot of religious ghosts in this article.
The article is a short cute story about “kids these days” and how they don’t value the oldsters advice like they used to. The 4th commandment (5th if you go by the Reformed count) is Honor your Father and Mother. Luther’s explanation, like all his . . . → Read More: The Advice Generation Gap
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