After a rough trip I stopped at a drugstore to get some aspirin before returning home. While I was waiting in line to check out, a duck comes into the shop and says to the pharmacist: “Could I have a tube of chapstick, please.” The pharmacist, without missing a...
Disney is know for “Imagineering,” the blurring of the boundaries between fantasy and reality. There is a Disney legend that circulates among the executives that one day while they were preparing for their parade, which is as close to a 19th century Fourth of July...
“St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a fact, it reveals a mystery.” Flannery O’Connor. Preachers, are you listening? We have for too long ruptured people’s minds with facts rather than raptured their souls with mystery.s To access this post,...
There is an old Jewish story of the island castaway who, when he was discovered, had built two synagogues. The original story is of a Jewish Robinson Crusoe, but you could adopt and adapt for any tribe or tradition. When his rescuers asked why he had built two...
“Get practical.” Well, just because something is practical doesn’t make it desirable. The Sermon on the Mount is the ultimate in impracticality. A great sermon series could be based on them called The Impractical Imperatives. To access this post, you must purchase...
If you want to end your sermon with a great Father’s Day “story,” try using this Orgami video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZu5l3PCCHs To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership -...
