Chuck Bomar

When preaching through books of the Bible we always come across those verses we wish we could skip over or completely avoid. For Pastor Chuck Bomar that came when he was preaching through Joshua, and he came to the "genocide" of Jericho. Or is it? Bomar walks us through this passage and proves why it wasn't genocide (or a massacre for that matter), all the while providing a great example of how to deal with this tough cultural topic—by putting this story in the center of God's bigger of story, evicting sin from the world.

Our Featured Skills Article this week also comes from Pastor Bomar. In "Preaching on Taboo Topics" Bomar gives us three tips to help prepare to preach these types of difficult topics. As a warning when preaching on these topics, Bomar says, "It is rarely worth teaching on sensitive subjects without being very intentional about the words we choose, the path we use to verbalize them, as well as the tone and posture we assume." Use these tips next time you come to difficult passage you want to avoid.

Also, check out these new resources:

• Featured Illustration: Cat Crosses Street with Authority of NYPD
• Featured Video: Moving Backward: This mini movie challenges us to remember that if we are not daily moving toward Christ, we are moving backward.
• Featured Sermon: "Genocide and Jericho" by Chuck Bomar
• Featured Skills Article: "Preaching on Taboo Topics" by Chuck Bomar

Andrew Finch
Administrative Editor, PreachingToday.com
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Andrew Finch is the Managing Editor for PreachingToday.com.