First saw this from Gavin Richardson via Facebook I don't blame Apple, really. Everyone knows you "got to give the people want they want." And people want to feel like they have the best. People want to be in the know. People want the good stuff in life. And, you know, I could write a long post about being content blah, blah and blah.  But I don't have to.  There are two quick items I can bring your attention to that will do the speaking...

There's a nice one-screen movie theater not too far from our house. We go there occasionally, depending upon what's playing. Something tells me, though, that I shouldn't expect this next movie to be showing there anytime. If it were, I think I would plan a church field trip. The movie is entitled Hellbound. I haven't seen it; I've only seen the trailer. It appears to be a documentary-type look at the ongoing faith conversation about hell. Is it a...

This was an easy sermon to preach.  Easy in the sense that making connections isn't difficult.  We all know what it feels like to be the one to say something we later regret.  We all know what it means to let your tongue slip and say something you wish you could take back.  And there have been times when you wish you would have said something.  Any way you lay it out, preaching on the tongue, or our big mouth, is easy like Sunday morning....

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”  - E. Joseph Cossman ...

A couple of months ago one church sign got a lot of publicity.  The sign read: God prefers kind atheists over hateful Christians.  I thought about that a few times while I was preparing for this sermon.  Our last church had a marquis.  Had this sermon come around then maybe ours would have had the same message.  But you can't always get what you want.  So, I got to preach this sermon, but didn't get to have church-sign fun.  Life...