RoboPreacher

when they got you in that condition A sermon on Moses' sermon on the edge of the Promise land Seeing as today’s Scripture is the Ten Commandments, I think it’s only fitting to begin with a confession . And so, without further ado, here you go: I have a conflicted relationship with rules…   You know, you could act a little more surprised!   Alright. I know that’s not the most revealing confession. But it is a bewildering one, at least for me it is! For instance, as an eldest and a midwesterner to boot, I’m a natural -born rule- follower . HOWEVER, there also exists within me this deep -seated aversion to rules. And given how knee- jerk and visceral my reaction can be, there might be something pathological to my complicated relationship. If I had to play armchair psychologist, I’d speculate that my messy history with rules stems from growing up in an alcoholic home. In an alcoholic home, everything depends on the alcoholic’s mood. If they’re having a good day, it’ll b...

as if to say you're all i need A sermon on Eden : We can’t really talk about what this passage is . Can we? Unfortunately for us , this piece of Scripture is, before it’s anything else, a story of what’s been lost . Eden isn’t the story of what is. It’s the story of what isn’t .   Why so far removed are we from this account that if we try and imagine it, we're called up short almost immediately? I mean, what , after all, is lost in Eden? Was it Paradise ? Was it immortality ? Truthfully, though , if I try to picture any of that, I lose interest after about 30 seconds! Sure, it sounds fun to romp through that picture- perfect Eden. But only for a while! What would I do after that?   And immortality is no better, either! In fact, it’s worse ! Add immortality to our estimations of Eden, and you wind up doomed to Paradise! Stuck in the Garden forever, twiddling your thumbs with nothing to do! No, thank you!   Sure, life east of Eden may be imperfect , but at least ...