Since I first began ThePreachersWord on January 1, 2012, I have been asked several times, “How do you write all those posts for your blog?’
That’s a good question. Today is post 321. It is also the final day of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, in which I have posted every day in January. So, how have I written 31 posts in January? And 321 Since I began?
Here’s how. Continue reading
Filed under Blogs, Discipline, Success
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, is credited with saying, “Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”
Well, people have been talking, that’s for sure. Especially here in Kansas City. Monday, KC recorded a record high for January of 74 degrees. It was over 60 when I woke up Tuesday AM. By lunch time it was 48 and dropping. And this morning snow flakes are falling! Continue reading
“What have you done that you believe in and you are proud of?” How would answer this question?
John W. Gardner, who wrote the book “Excellence” says we have the potential to make a difference, not only in our own lives. But also in the lives of those we meet.
Gardner, the founder of Common Cause, illustrates that point by relating the true story of a cheerful old gentleman who invested his life in others. Continue reading
Filed under Purpose
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian.
I can remember as a boy hearing preachers say “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, anymore than sitting inside a henhouse makes you a chicken!” Yes, I know that dates me! But it’s a vivid analogy. Continue reading
Filed under Christian Living, Discipleship
We often hear the expression regarding some activity or outing, “that’s family time.” It is good to set aside times in our families just to be together without outside intrusion.
Well today it’s family time. Time to meet with my spiritual family. It has been for as long as I can remember. I’m talking about my church family. Continue reading
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It was a classic every football season for several years in the Peanuts comic strip. Charlie Brown practicing his place kicking and Lucy holding the football.
Every time Lucy held the ball for Charlie the same thing would happen. Charlie would approach the ball and with all his might was ready to kick the ball out of the end zone. But at the exact moment, the point of no return, Lucy would pick up the ball. Charlie would kick and his unchecked momentum would cause him to fall flat on his back.
One strip opened with Lucy holding the ball, but Charlie Brown wouldn’t kick it. Lucy begged. But Charlie wouldn’t budge. Continue reading
Filed under Repentance
How’s your Friday so far? Just another normal day? You awoke. Ate some breakfast. Began your daily routine. Checked out the news. Went to work. And you pretty much expect it to end like most Friday’s. Right?
Did you ever think what is was like on that Friday Christ was crucified? Continue reading
Filed under Christ, Cross, It's Friday. But Sunday's Coming!
Crazy. Unbelievable. Bizarre. All of these words (and more) describe the incredible situation of Manti Te’o.
The 21-year-old Te’o, a star linebacker for the Notre Dame football team, has been ridiculed, questioned, and doubted for his role in the hoax that led him, the Notre Dame football team and the public to believe that his girl friend died of leukemia.
In the outside chance that you missed this story. Sometime in 2009 Manti Te’o began an online relationship with a girl he believed was named Lennay Kekua. Evidently there were facebook messages, texts, emails and phone calls. But they never met! Because she was not real! She didn’t exist! Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Relationships, Uncategorized
(This post has received the most views of any post during 2013 and 2012)
Monday was a historical day. On MLK day our first black President was sworn into office for a second term. But there was something else. For the first time in an Inaugural speech, a President used the word “gay” to address sexual orientation and promote same-sex marriage.
President Obama also invoked “Stonewall” a gay bar in Greenwich, where in 1969 a police raid sparked riots. He placed it the same category as 1848 Women’s right convention in Seneca Falls, and the 1965 civil rights March in Selma, Alabama.
And what is my response? Continue reading
Filed under 2013 Top Posts, America, Culture
“I don’t think there is a good reason for an abortion….“It’s not your body, it’s not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave it to you.”
Guess who said that?
Not the Pope. Not a preacher. Not a politician. It was Norma McCorvey. Don’t know her? She was a Texas woman who at age 21 was pregnant for the third time. She worked at a low paying job. And Norma didn’t need another child. Continue reading
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