RoboPreacher

questions are the answers you might need A sermon on the preacher's hymn to time's timelessness : In high school, my favorite band was Oasis . I’m sure you’ve heard them. In the 90s, they were basically inescapable . iTunes tells me their most popular songs are Wonderwall , Don’t Look Back in Anger , and Champaign Supernova . And that seems about right. Unless you were living under a rock , you must have heard at least one of those songs a time or two.   As for me , I’ve listened to those songs many a time! Like many people of a certain age, I have an overestimation of the music of my youth. And there’s a version of this sermon where I tell you all about Oasis, too! But suffice it to say, the thing that made Oasis so compelling is the very same thing that also made them so unstable !   Oasis was fronted by two working -class brothers . When they hit it big , they burnt through their money like a couple of teenagers who discovered a fortune —which is more or less exac...

the rest of my life is so hard A sermon St. John's epistles to the elect lady and her children : Guess what? I’ve come up with a new way to get your attention! And I think you’ll like it, too. Instead of participation , I thought we might try gossip . That’s right, gossip ! How do you like that ? And don’t pretend you’re not suddenly more interested, either! I know you ! You can’t resist a little hot gossip! Can you? And you know what else? I’m the object of the gossip, too! Yup, I’m going to spill a little tea on myself ! Now I’ve really got your attention . Don’t I? …While we’re on it, one of the things I want you to take away from my testimony of what a wreck I am is that you would know you can’t shock me. There’s nothing you can confess that will make me think any differently of you. Ok? You don’t have to maintain some sort of image with me!   First of all, give me a little credit ! Sure, I’m no great pastor. But I am at least decent enough to know there’s a reaso...