Sermons
so what if you fail?
I’m very sad this morning about this. My first response: ‘Are you kidding, me?’ Not because he is a particularly great guy or because he is a ‘Christian’. I don’t know him. And I’m enough out of the loop that I wouldn’t even recognize him on the street. I’m just sad and frustrated that another […]
A little week-end reading
If you want to read ahead for Sunday and then small group, take a look at these links. Reviewing a new biography of E. M. Forster Time to throw out virginity and tactical nukes Girls, hooking up, Taylor Swift, Glee, and true love porn, devastation, it’s as bad as you think And while you’re at […]
God’s checklist
I’ve been thinking a lot about checklists since David’s sermon on Sunday. He did a great job of describing the way we imagine God constantly standing over our shoulder, monitoring our every thought and action and marking down all of our failures on some sort of divine checklist. The result? A profound sense of condemnation–the […]