Commands are funny things. We give them all the time, to electronic devices, pets, and our automobiles but we don’t like getting them very much. Commands have a heavy connotation of coercion. We are seldom commanded to do something we want to do anyway. The Bible, especially the Old Testament, is filled with commands and…
This Sunday’s sermon title is one of those that doesn’t work particularly in print. The phrase (or whatever it should be called when I don’t want to repeat the word “title” again) Peace? Really? could be incredulously hopeful, which is not what I was aiming for. The intonation I was envisaging (en-hearing?) was almost derisive…
Has anyone ever asked you which character in a book or movie you would like to be? Have you ever done the exercise of imagination by putting yourself into a story? A Bible story? I’m sure it has a technical name which I’ve forgotten but it can be a very useful technique for getting a…