I was a new youth pastor and had just preached my guts out at our Friday night service. And I thought I’d done a fine job. My wife was not impressed. “You just preached that sermon like ___________________ (a popular prof at the Bible college I’d just graduated from). You even sounded like him, and …
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I used to get pretty sick before I preached. It didn’t matter if I was speaking before a group of youth on a Friday night, a Young Adult retreat or a Sunday morning worship gathering. The feeling never changed. My nerves set in late the night before, and by the day of the event, I …
Like millions of people around the globe, my TV consumption in the last two weeks has consisted of watching world class athletes compete at the Olympic Games in Rio. Normally I would not be caught dead watching hammer throw, team pursuit or race walking, but every four years national pride and curiosity take over and …