There is a Seinfeld episode where Jerry is dating a girl he describes as a sentence finisher. “It’s like dating Mad Libs,” he says. And she was always completely off-base when she tries to complete his sentence. We’ve been using the metaphor of...
It is easy to get things mixed up as a kid. For example, I thought that the song “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” was about “Harold Angels,” as in the given name of those celestial beings. I had difficulty understanding that at first. Thankfully,...
One of the New Testament images for a preacher of the gospel is the image of the steward. Stewardship has come to be equated in our minds with financial giving. Yet it encompasses more than that. This word is an accurate description of what a preacher must do to...
We live in an image-driven culture. Even the oldest among us grew up with photographs and most of us grew up on TV and movies. There is no escaping the power of the image. A picture truly is worth a thousand words because we will remember an image long after the words...
