Over the years I’ve taught preaching in university courses and mentored a number of preaching apprentices and preachers-in-training. This series summarizes some of the most… Read More »Telling a Good Story (Preaching Point #8)
Last week the Faith in Memphis panel was asked to write about legislation making its way through the TN legislature regarding “baggy pants” (you know,… Read More »Does God Care What We Wear?
If you go out to eat at an average restaurant, you’ll find two kinds of dishes. There are main dishes. And there side dishes. I suppose there are times when we choose a restaurant solely because it has our favorite side dish. For example, you might choose Olive Garden just because you love the bread sticks and the salad. But most of the time we choose a restaurant because of the main dish. We are there to eat the entrée. The side dishes are nice. But what we hunger for is the main dish. For many of us, a satisfying meal consists not just of a side dish but of a main dish. We can think about our lives in a similar way. There are side dishes. And there are main dishes. There are things that are not terribly important. And there are things that are extremely important. We all have our side dishes and our main dishes in life. This is even true when it comes to what we would probably call our spiritual life. Spiritually, some things are more important to us than others. This morning and in this new series we’re exploring what it might be like to let Jesus be not just a side dish, but the main dish of our lives. We are exploring what life might be like if didn’t just take a slice of Jesus, but we took all of Jesus.Read More »Slice: Making Jesus The Bread of Your Life (Jn. 6:35; 6:48) Chris Altrock, February 26, Sunday Morning Message
The Faith in Memphis panel I serve on was asked last week to contribute posts to this question: What most concerns you about Memphis?
I wrote about the disease of distraction: