Dogmatism & Listening
“Dogmatic” is a slippery word. It’s root, “dogma,” means an established set of opinions or beliefs. Every person lives by a set of dogmas. When we get angry at the behaviors of others, our dogmas are showing. The word, “dogmatic,” on the other hand, usually carries a...
USPS & DOGE
US Postal Service Currently, mail is delivered to residences 6 days each week across the country. Almost no mail delivery is time-sensitive anymore. It is either advertisements, magazines, or bills. Together these add up to 3 or 4 pieces of mail per day, on...
Heaven
Many Christians support the idea of everlasting torment of the wicked on the basis that the threat of it drives people into the arms of Christ. Let’s call it the “scared straight” argument. Jonathan Edwards famously used the strategy in his sermons. “The God...
Three-part Sermon
The three-part sermon: I will tell you what I’m going to tell you; I tell you; then I tell you what I told you. I appreciate the value of repetition and focus, but I prefer this three-part formula: I will tell you; then I will tell you the same thing in a different way; then I will tell you the same thing in a third way. – E.O.
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