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• The parachute company says you’ll get a full refund. • They say the house didn’t float very far at all. • The National Enquirer just loved those pictures of you at work. • Jerry Springer wants to surprise you on his show. • The reward for your capture has reached $50,000. • The insurance … Continue reading “Here’s Some Good News”

At least you can get your money back. If you were one of those consumers who invested in caffeine-infused underwear with the promise that it will make you thinner, the Federal Trade Commission says you were taken advantage of by this ruse. According to a Sept. 30, 2014, AP story, the FTC recently announced that … Continue reading “And Finally: Fat and False Advertising”

Last week there, was a flurry of interest in sermons preached in Houston, Texas. As you likely read in various news reports, the mayor and city attorney were unhappy with public opposition to Houston’s recent Bathroom Bill, which allows people to enter any public bathroom associated with their self-identified gender. So, if a man feels … Continue reading “Send the Mayor Some Sermons”

Before Thy Throne I Now Appear It was 1750. There is a story, thought to be apocryphal by some, yet confirmed by others,1 that as the great Johann Sebastian Bach2 lay dying, he dictated the music of his final great work, a chorale prelude, to his sons. Bach’s second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, made … Continue reading “Bach’s Fugue, Bonhoeffer’s Fragments and the Prelude to Living: A Reformation Sunday Devotion”

At the back of many churches is a clock. It reminds us we are mortal. Behind the preacher is a cross. It also reminds us that we are immortal. We are both because of Easter. Though we celebrate the resurrection as Easter approaches, we should consider the following 50 days to be Easter, as well, … Continue reading “A Matter of Life and Death”

“Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; Awake as in the ancient days, in the generations of old” (Isa. 51:9). The way that the mighty men of the Old Testament talked to God appears strange, or at least different, to me. When I compare today’s often-censored and feeble prayers with their bold … Continue reading “Jesus Is the Arm of God”

More than 6,000 pastors were asked how they would respond to a female church member coming to them for counseling on domestic abuse. A ghastly 50 percent of those surveyed said the woman should willingly “tolerate some level of violence” seeing as it is a better outcome than divorce.1 Roger Goodell’s words are our own, … Continue reading “Domestic Violence in the Church: Have We Gotten it Wrong, Too?”

The Old Testament prophetic literature furnishes pastors with fertile ground for making sermons by openly declaring “its immediate relevance by presenting itself as preaching.”1 Preachers feel at home in the prophets because with them we find a common task: bringing the covenant to bear on the crisis of the day. Yet, preaching the prophets brings … Continue reading “Prophetically Speaking: Cautions & Challenges for Preaching the Old Testament Prophets”

God takes the fourth commandment seriously. Just to jog our memory, Exodus 35:2 says, “For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.”1 For the Israelites, Sabbath-rest never was meant to … Continue reading “How Your Preaching Benefits from Sabbath-Rest”

Nelson Searcy is the founding pastor of The Journey Church, which began in 2002 in New York and now has more than 2,000 members and locations in New York; San Francisco; and Boca Raton, Florida. Through his live events, seminars, webinars and other training events, he has trained more than 50,000 leaders. He’s the author … Continue reading “Being a Renegade Preacher”