If, on the day after you give your talk, you can remember the story, but not the point you were trying to make, chances are neither the story nor the point were worth telling.
Just a thought…
Month: June 2007 (page 2 of 3)
Overheard in some guy’s Father’s Day message yesterday…
Don’t allow yourself to be emasculated by the mistakes of the past or castrated by the current culture…
This from the same guy who referred to Home Life as a “girlie magazine,” and then quickly corrected himself by adding…
I don’t mean that kind of girlie magazine!
Hmmmm….
Random little things that shouldn’t be bugging me today, but they are…
- Six-week sabbaticals
- Pastors as Rasputin or Charles Manson
- Paranoid leaders
- Cat urine
- Delays
- Way too-long and tangled “to-do” lists, with no clear starting point
- Little flaws that add up to huge character defects
It was just a little sin, a little insignificant lie. One told out of embarrassment and frustration. Just two little words…
Wrong number.
Actually, it was little insignificant lie #2. The first came just a few minutes before…
It’s already taken care of.
Funny thing about those little insignificant sins: They are huge blocks in one’s spirit, in one’s ability to focus on and hear from God.
I just finished reading Larry Winget’s book about work. I probably never would have picked up this book on my own, but I won it from the good folks over at InBubbleWrap. Boy, am I glad I did!
Well, “glad” may not really be a good word. Let’s just say I’ve greatly benefited from Winget’s common-sense, in-your-face, no-nonsense approach.
Almost every page reminded me of my buddy Gary Lamb for some reason. I guess because of Gary’s common-sense, in-your-face, no-nonsense approach. Now, if only Gary could get some of those glasses, shirts, and boots, and shave his head…
First, let me say that I was not able to find an old, abandoned, ratty, never-wanted-again rocking chair. I found a brand-new, ratty, why-would-I-want-one rocking chair. But I wasn’t going to spend 80 bucks for it.
Especially since I intended to smash it to smithereens with a sledge hammer in the middle of our morning worship service today.
So I managed to pilfer a rocking chair from our nursery before the service started. A great squeaky, creaky rocking chair. And as it turned out, the fact that our people thought I was about to smash it to smithereens with a sledge hammer was probably more effective than if I had actually done it!
For the record, we’re working our way through Joshua, and today’s talk was on Caleb, and it was called “No More Rocking Chairs,” and it challenged me more than it did my people. Go figure…
(The talk also included a quote from Shelley Winters about nudity on stage, some condescending quotes about older people from some of our local civic leaders, President Reagan’s diary, Roger Clemens, and a double-dog dare. Who said “traditional” churches aren’t any fun?)
Definitely an old school unwind tonight! (Wow! Isn’t it amazing that a “cutting edge” CD released just seven years ago is really, really old school?) Anyway, Delirious? always helps me worship. Not to mention, they can flat out rock!
The more I read Chris Elrod’s blog, the more I keep moving him up my list of “Bloggers I Most Want to Meet.”
Chris posted today about his greatest regret, and here’s the money quote for me…
I kept saying I’ll do it tomorrow…as of today…tomorrow has never come.
Somewhat strange question…and I’m asking it in a couple of online forums I frequent…
Do you guys know of any situations/models where the “main teaching pastor” IS NOT the “main leading pastor?” Does that make sense? Are there any churches that are successful where the entrepreneurial/visionary leader is not the one who is most gifted in teaching/preaching? Or conversely, do you know of any successful churches where the most gifted teacher/preacher is not the most gifted entrepreneurial/visionary leader?
I know that sounds kind of weird, but I’m just wondering…thanks in advance for the help!