There is something about the very notion of the miraculous that offends most modern sensibilities. We think that a miracle is something from another, ruder, more credulous, age. Or we try to get around it by saying that “everything” is a miracle, thus, nothing is. I’m not going to try to explain everything here, but […]
Who knows what God can do?
Who would be so bold as to take up valuable preaching time with such a peculiar question as this one: Who knows what God can do? Well, as it turns out, me. I don’t know that I would call it boldness but rather a response to the texts. It took me quite a bit of […]
The Trinity . . . so what?
Trinity Sunday is one of the few Sundays of the year where a preacher might be forgiven for preaching a heavy, doctrinal sermon. Believe it or not, there is something rather attractive about really digging in and laying out a good 45 minutes of careful reasoning and exposition. The problem is that, no matter how […]