The Saddest Joke I Ever Heard

A little while back, a preacher told the story of a pastor he once sat under. The context was a very brief aside about preaching the same sermon several times. This original pastor, it was said, would privately joke about being able to preach the same sermon twice and people wouldn’t even notice! He would

Appearance of Evil…Eisegesis?

Eisegesis is one of those big theological words that isn’t common in most Christians vocabularies. Problem is, the idea behind it is far too common. Eisegesis is the idea of reading or projecting our own ideas, feelings, or interpretations into the biblical text and then declaring the result to be what God meant. This is

The Right Truth but the Wrong Text

Having regularly attended seven different churches in my life, as well as those four years I invested into Bible college, I’ve heard a large number of sermons from a large number of preachers. It’s also continuing habit of mine to also listen to the audio recordings of sermons when I drive long distances. Some messages