Really Bad Predictions

In a recent article in The Futurist magazine, writer Laura Lee catalogues some of the worst predictions of all time:

"Inventions have long since reached ...

TV "Survivor" Needs Church

Each Wednesday night this summer, 26 million Americans tuned in to watch the CBS program "Survivor." One of the 16 castaways attempting to be ...

Deaf to God

May 18, 1980 is one of those dates on which many of us can remember where we were and what we were doing. That was the day Mount St. Helens erupted. I ...

Pay Attention to the Instrument Panel

An airplane pilot is not to trust his own instincts in a storm, but to trust the instrument panel. Instincts can be wrong if he experiences vertigo. Just ...

The King Who Didn't Listen

In George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan, Joan of Arc is always hearing voices from God, and the king is angered by this. He complains to her, "Oh, ...

The World Needs Messages

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages. ...

Hurried Interpretations

God makes his will visible to men in events, an obscure text written in a mysterious language. Men make their translations of it instantly; hasty translations, ...

Language as Art

Most of us would hesitate to call the kind of writing we do "art." ... There are indeed times, indeed most times are these, when we do use language ...

Finding the Instructions

Someone said that the mind is a marvelous instrument. Unfortunately, it did not come with instructions. We could say the same for life. All of life. And ...

First Priority in Preaching

My first priority is to preach about the gospel, not about people's experiences.