Fire Season Sunday Soundbyte

August 25, 2009 by admin

An extended drought is often the occasion for “fire season.” (pause) And no, I’m not talking about the thousands of acres presently burning in the western part of our country. What I’m referring to are the years of spiritual drought we have known, which hopefully will soon prove to be the prelude to an extended time of of revival fires throughout the churches of our land.

Use my Sunday Soundbytes in your Sunday sermons or church service to convey timeless biblical truths about modern day events. You have my permission.

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Preaching Sunday Sermons for Changed Lives Takes Commitment

August 25, 2009 by admin

A family of five has been dysfunctional for many years. Because the chaos has become almost unbearable, the dad and mom decide to attend a weekend seminar on better parenting. This proves to be incredibly helpful. Not only do they get a picture of what a healthy family looks like, but they receive good handles on how to begin to pull things off. Wonderful testimonies are also heard from parents who turned things around by following what they were taught.

Returning from the weekend with a head of steam, all of a sudden Dad and Mom run into opposition from their children, ages 15, 12 and 9. None of them were involved in the training, and these three have no vision of what could be or how to get there. Cooperation means a radical change of behavior on the part of everyone, and they aren’t buying in. What will happen is anyone’s guess.

This is similar to what takes place when a pastor begins preaching with changed lives clearly in mind. Church sermon suggestions or “how-to’s” are resisted or ignored. It’s like, Who decided all of a sudden that we congregants wanted to be all that Christ-like? Let’s get back to the ‘weekend devotional thought’ Sunday sermons with a nice closing illustration, like we were used to hearing.

For a pastor to see changes in lives will take a real commitment that includes the willingness to stick with this approach in spite of opposition. Are you ready to make that church sermon commitment?

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Call for Workers Sunday Soundbyte

August 25, 2009 by admin

Some of you highly skilled individuals who, for whatever reason, have more or less retired from active involvement in the program of church — we need you to be a Brett Favre, and once again get back in the game.

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Baseball Needs Help

August 18, 2009 by admin

Major League Baseball wants any help they can get in understanding why so many of their bats have been exploding of late. There’s not much in the Bible about baseball, however, save for that first verse in Genesis, which reads, “In the big inning … God created the heavens and the earth.”