:: M squared T ::

:: Saturday, February 15, 2003 ::

I was reading Thomas G. Long's Witness of Preaching for one of my classes... got to the chapter where he was talking about adding sermon illustrations. And i got to thinking... it seems that the most appropriate sermon illustrations don't come from those books of jokes or illustrations or even preaching websites. There's a lot of better stuff. Most of the stuff on the radio (and no, i don't mean Christian radio) speaks to a lot of the issues i want to preach about. That music, along with other stuff, seems like it would make better connections with those around me than the "little boy and his dog or his grandfather" stories told by most preachers. Even if i'm never in a "pulpit" (even if "pulpit" doesn't involve a music-stand-like paper holder) it's more useful to be able to illustrate the faith through an interaction with the fiber of our society than with these quaint, clean and incredibly FAKE stories.

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