The congregation doesn't need your coffee joke.
They buried someone this week.
They're sitting in pews with divorce papers in their glovebox.
Kids who won't speak to them.
Test results they haven't opened.
They drove past three churches to hear you say something that costs you something.
So open the Book.
Forget the illustration you found on Google.
Skip the movie clip.
Kill the countdown timer on your outline.
Preach like a man possessed.
Preach like you'll answer for every wasted syllable.
Preach like their blood is on your hands.
Because it is.
The pulpit isn't a stage.
Sophie Cunningham got booed all game for wanting to protect women's sports from biological men competing.
She kept smiling. She kept shooting. She's not backing down.
Stand with Sophie. 💪
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
-Charles W. Eliot
If it's been a while since you've been to church and now you feel too embarrassed to return...
Remember, it's not the Lord telling you to stay away.
He's the One calling you to come back home.
My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is doing for me.
Charles Spurgeon