Lenten services (typically held on Wednesdays….but can be any day or days of the week in addition to the regular weekly service) can be times of experimentation and creativity. Try 15 minute or half hour services that focus on one metaphor or on one brief story. Or...
If you want people to remember your sermon, let them smell it, touch it, feel it, see it, hear it. Think of ways to make your sermons experiential, so that people not only hear what you say, but experience the dynamics of your story or metaphor. To access this...
Make room in your worship for repentance. It sounds strange. But as Christians, we have, many of us, gotten away from the idea of repentance. We don’t want to make people feel bad for fear they’ll never return. We want to concentrate on hope. We want to...
When I think of metaphor I think of Alice in Wonderland and the hall of many, different sized and shaped doors. Metaphors unlock meanings that can’t be seen with the naked eye. Metaphors are like pathways that you travel in order to seek meanings that are otherwise...
Today, we stand in one of the worst political divides of our century, perhaps our last two centuries. But as pastors, we must pastor ALL of our people, or rather all of GOD’s people. When you preach, make sure you are not preaching your own party, your own agenda,...
A metaphor is an abstract word that “points” to something greater, more complex, more often indescribable. A metaphor is always a noun. For example, a metaphor of a mountain may be used to describe something about God –God’s loftiness, distance, height above our...
