An undated sermon note:
Spiritual warfare: Best seen in Matthew 6: 25-34 — the lie that the present is more than it is, that God is not really in control?
This item is a great example of why I’m thrilled to finally be getting around to plowing through two decades worth of sermon notes. It’s not insight I’m looking for: it’s questions. Continue reading
An undated sermon note:
We can’t be Christlike until we, like Christ, learn what it means to suffer unjustly, not just suffer. That’s what allows us to have compassion. Heb. 4:8
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I can actually pinpoint the date and context of this note.
I had the pleasure of hearing Conley Silsby preach now and then for thirty-some years. He had done some pulpit supply at West Seattle Christian Church in the late 1960s prior to Russ Galbreath’s arrival, and made an immense impression on me as child.
Here are a couple of notes from a sermon by Conley Silsby, probably at Normandy Christian Church sometime in the early 1990s.
An undated sermon note, probably from a sermon by Mike Gunn at Harambee.
When God puts us on a leash, He’s saying, “Let’s go for a walk!” You want to walk with God? Get comfortable wearing a leash.
There’s something to be said for learning about our relationship with God through analogy with our pets.
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One of the maxims of the physical world is that an object in motion tends to stay in motion… and on the same course, unless its momentum is shifted in some way.
This is a spiritual maxim as well. We often talk about our spiritual live as “stagnating,” but the truth is that we are most often either getting closer to God… or drifting away.
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