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God Does Not Over Promise and Under Deliver
preaching in a pandemicGod Does Not Over Promise and Under Deliver People in a pandemic may experience a testing of their faith. They need to know that God does not over promise and under deliver to us. That’s the theme of this post, one in a series on how to preach in a pandemic. Carl Sewell made a […]
Love Wins The Day
preaching in a pandemicLove Wins The Day One of the big lessons we can learn from church history in regard to preaching during a pandemic is simply this: love wins the day as we care about other people. We’ve been looking at how to preach during a pandemic in these posts, exploring various aspects of sermons during such […]
He Will Hold Me Fast
preaching in a pandemicHe Will Hold Me Fast He will hold me fast is the title of an old hymn, copyrighted in 1906 by Charles Alexander, music director for Evangelist R.A. Torrey. The music was composed by Robert Harkness, a pianist who took words provided by singer Ada Habershon, and the song became a hit in the crusade meetings. If […]
Proclaiming Hope for Hopeless People
Top Preaching TipsProclaiming Hope for Hopeless People We have been looking at how to preach in a pandemic. Here’s the first in the series of posts. In this post we will consider that proclaiming hope for hopeless people as they face the trauma of this time is a key to effective preaching. One Small Push Recently, I […]
A Crisis of Faith
preaching in a pandemicA Crisis of Faith One of the people I came to appreciate in my life is named Brennan Manning. His best-known book is Ragamuffin Gospel, in which he makes the point that we all appear as ragamuffins before God. In other words, we are powerfully stained with sin, but God’s grace reaches out to his anyway. […]