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Here is my lovely wife.

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This has me thinking twice.

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Back to preaching help!  I’ve been in the far country spending a lot of my time on this blog on politics.  But I read something that caught my fancy regarding sentence diagramming or mechanical diagrams.  Whatever you call it, it is getting the passage flow of thought down on paper or computer screen in [...]

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Notice the picture of the well-meaning Gospel message on the electronic sign above the store.

Sometimes your attempt to share the Gospel goes wrong.  But keep on trying!

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We are admonished to Meditate on the Word in scripture.  Read something very interesting from the Preaching Today Blog.  Discussing the Transformational Expository Preaching Conference, Brian Lowery quoted Colin Smith who said that he meditates on the word in three ways.
First, you can meditate on a text as a prophet would, with truth in view. [...]

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Gary Stephens and his wife Ruth are missionaries to Cameroon.  He spoke at High Peak recently and this is the video he showed of their work there.  He has given us permission to post it here.

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I often struggle when I preach with what I call the “Good Enough” syndrome.  I hate “Good Enough” because it feels like less than the Word deserves.  Let me explain.
I work through a passage and suffer over the true meaning.  It is like shooting at a target and I find myself sometimes burying the arrow [...]

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I love this and it is a great illustration of how sin is a trap.  This boy intended to do harm to this wall, but the wall fought back.

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I like Bible Study software.  It is fun to play with and use.  I like to learn how to get the most out of them.  It is just enjoyable.  Plus, for anyone who reads, studies, or teaches the Word, it is helpful to have and know how to use a good, powerful Bible Study program.
But [...]

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Took a break from sermon writing and other church stuff this morning and singed up for Twitter.  It is a silly site that is becoming hugely popular.  On Twitter you send short little updates about what you are doing.  You add people to your list and you follow what they are doing.  For some reason [...]

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