Eulogy for Dorothy Jean Gooch
Eulogy – Dorothy Jean Gooch – Nov. 25, 2009 Dorothy Jean Gooch was 83 years old when she fell asleep in Christ on Sunday, November… Read More »Eulogy for Dorothy Jean Gooch
Eulogy – Dorothy Jean Gooch – Nov. 25, 2009 Dorothy Jean Gooch was 83 years old when she fell asleep in Christ on Sunday, November… Read More »Eulogy for Dorothy Jean Gooch
Our staff recently wrote our faith stories/ conversion stories in 140 characters (the limit for Twitter). Here’s the faith story of Donnie Stover, one of… Read More »Tweetimonies: Donnie Stover
Prayer for those preaching/ teaching this AM: May the Word you share lead listeners to rejoice in the faithfulness of God (Ps. 119:90). # Morning… Read More »Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22
Bob Hyatt introduces us to the sin of “preaching for the nod” in a recent post. He writes this:
Every once in a while I find myself preaching for the nod. That’s when we try to hard wire a bit of ego-stroke into a Sunday morning message. We do it a lot, and it’s so easy—insert that small comment, that little aside, or even that main point that we know will appeal to the sensibilities of certain listeners. You know, the left-leaning (or right leaning) political comment. The doctrinal aside that scratches the itch of that person so prone to give up the “Amen” or the vigorous head nod…