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How to read the Bible and get something out of it. (What is a begat?)
Why I enjoy watching TV more than reading my Bible.
Why the Bible is politically incorrect.
Things that are not in the Bible
God helps those who help themselves.
The lion and the lamb lie down together.
Adam Eve ate an apple.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Money is the root of all evil.
All things work together for good.
Closing my eyes to pray.
Rebuking the Devil.
Jesus praying for the sick.
Chubby cherubs.
Angels playing harps.
Saints sitting on clouds playing harps.
Saint Peter as the heavenly gatekeeper.
Church
Why the real church isnt a take or leave it smorgasbord.
How God will
use the church to bring judgment on the world.
(When He gets it fixed)
Why the Holy
Spirit came to church last Sunday and couldnt get in.
Or,
No Room at the Inn.
Why the churches
are closed at midnight,
However, the bars are open.
Why my mega church feels like a big orphanage.
If our church
building fell down,
would we still be a church?
Why the church is people and not a place.
How the Church
would be fine,
if it werent for the people.
How God is going to iron out the spots and wrinkles in His Church.
Character
Why character is more than a person on my favorite TV sitcom.
The Cross
Why the Cross is more than history.
Why the Cross is not neon or jewelry but an offense.
How to carry your cross and die quietly.
Cultural Christianity
Why God doesnt
speak in King James English,
with a Southern accent,
even if it sounds that way.
Why the holy nation is not the United States.
Endurance
How to walk in the spirit when my spiritual legs are broken.
Faith
How I wrote a check in faith and now Im believing God for my bail money
Fellowship
Why fellowship is more than the guys getting together and watching football.
Formulas
What to do when
the formulas fail,
and God doesnt perform the way
He is supposed to.
Forgiveness
How to forgive when I dont want to.
God Stuff
Why God doesnt always make sense.
What to do when God goes deaf.
Why God doesnt
need permission
before He does something in my life.
If God seems distant...who moved?
Healing
What am I missing when?
The blind see,
The deaf hear,
The cripples walk,
The dead are raised,
However, I still have a stress headache?
Why Gus drove
into the telephone pole
after he named
and claimed
healing for his eyes.
Hell
How to come to
a better understanding of the reality of hell and eternal damnation
as it pertains to the people I love.
Humility
The antidote
to thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to:
Friends in low places.
Hypocrisy
Why we stone
people to death
with the same sin we used to practice.
The Kingdom
The Kingdom of God is
in your midst,
but
I dont see anything.
Why if you dont
Seek first the Kingdom,
it will not be sought at all.
My Kingdom is not of this
world.
If it were My servants
would fight.
(John 18.36)
If Jesus servants fight, what kingdom do they belong to?
Why some Christians,
who feel they are called to eat,
dont believe their stomachs will keep them from the Kingdom of God.
Leaders
Reminder:
Pastors are people too.
How to act like
a:
Reverend,
Father,
Bishop,
Apostle,
Prophet.
Who are these titles important to?
How to follow a leader who doesnt know where hes going.
Love
How to love your
enemies,
when you dont like many of your (so-called) friends.
Why love without obedience isnt love at all.
How to love
demanding,
rude, crude,
and
disrespectful people
you dont like.
How to love God and like it.
Marriage
How to lead my wife by serving her.
Maturity
Admitting I used to know a lot.
The Media
How God uses the media to bring judgment on the church.
Meetings
Why meetings are not more important than my family.
How to be free
from attending church meetings
and not feel guilty.
How to sleep
on Sunday morning
and not feel guilty.
Why Jesus seldom called meetings.
Why pew is often
an appropriate name
for some church meetings.
Why a service is not a meeting but an act.
Missions
Why foreign missions have nothing to do with James Bond.
How to be involved in foreign missions and not like foreigners.
Movements
Why the charismatic movement stopped moving 15 years ago and many havent noticed it yet.
Why the church needs a spiritual enema.
Why bowels of mercies, is not down the hall to the left.
My Secret Life
How to walk in the light and keep my deep dark secrets.
Obedience
How to obey God,
but not my boss.
Patience
At red lights.
Politics
Why does the church feel it has to impress politicians?
Why does the church allow itself to be defined by political labels?
Why the church is neither liberal nor conservative.
Why being politically correct is often Biblically incorrect.
Praise Worship
Let them praise His
name in the dance.
(Psalm 149.3)
What would happen to my church membership if I did this on Sunday morning?
What would we sing if God required our hymns of us?
Should we be singing hymns and songs we dont mean?
How to sing a new song you have never heard before.
Why the God who created rhythm doesnt hate pop music.
Prayer
After a seven course church
supper:
Bless all that is within me.
How to pray and
get something out of it,
but not what we expected.
How to pray without whining.
How God answered my prayers through silence.
How I prayed for a Mercedes and got a rusty truck.
Why we are praying about things that dont matter to God.
What to do when we agreed
together in prayer;
however, God didnt agree with us.
How to pray
when you dont know how,
dont want to
and
dont feel like it.
Why Jesus did not pray for the sick.
Preachers
Why preachers yell when they preach.
Why louder is not more inspired.
Why preachers voices change when they preach?
Why plastic pulpits are a barrier between preachers and people.
How to tell the difference between show biz and some TV preachers.
Why we are preaching about things that dont matter.
Why hairspray is not the anointing.
Priorities
Why do we major in minors?
Questions?
Would you still give your
life to Jesus
if you knew you would lose your life for doing so?
Whatever happened to simplicity in Christ?
Why do we remember pain more than pleasure?
Whatever happened to
appreciation,
thankfulness,
courtesy,
respect?
Why we dont admit
what we said
God said,
when God hasnt spoken.
Where did all the prophets go?
Would Elijah sell his prophecies at $10.00 per tape?
Quiet Time
How to make your quiet time not so quiet.
Praise the Lord:
Make music.
Sing to the Lord.
Sing praises.
Sing for joy.
Shout to the Lord.
Make a joyful noise to
the Lord.
With trumpets,
tambourines, cymbals, flutes,
and stringed instruments.
Clap your hands.
Cry out to the
Lord.
Groan.
Weep.
Dance before Him.
Relationships
How not to be
bitter,
angry or hurt,
after being rejected.
How to live with unspoken disapproval.
How to understand misunderstanding.
Why betrayal is an inside job.
How to love those who betrayed you.
The calling of a busybody:
God told me to tell you.
Why joint members are not people who smoke pot.
Why I am not called to fight my brothers.
Religious Performance
How to please the Lord without tap dancing.
How to be holy without being religious.
How to live in spiritual reality without being religious.
How to speak
in christianeze,
and not know what youre saying,
while
acting like you do.
How to use Christian
buzz words and phrases,
and not mean a word youre saying, i.e.
God bless you.
Ill pray for you. (When?)
Do you have the victory?
Are you an overcomer?
Are you born again...again?
Have you gone forward?
I see that hand.
Is there a body attached?
Are you backslidden or sliding?
How to fight
with other Christians before a watching world and
call it
defending the faith.
Why calling one
another,
brother sister
is religious language
for not knowing each others name.
Why lying on your face before the Lord is actually sleeping.
How to heal religious
pride:
remembering
where you were,
and
what you were doing
when God apprehended you.
(Ezekiel 16.4-14)
Repentance
How to repent again when it didnt work the first time.
Responsibility
I wanted it,
but now that I have it,
where do I go to give it back?
The Resurrection
Why the resurrection is more than history.
Risks
How to open the
garden of your heart,
after having it crushed by a friend.
How to follow
on
when you dont know where youre going.
Sacrifice
How Ill lay my
life down for my wife;
except when the games on.
The Second Coming
(As I understood it)
Is the Rapture a rupture?
Why the Second Coming theology was not written by Walt Disney.
Why Jesus isnt
coming back
until the Jews get the message.
Why I know Jesus
isnt coming back tonight:
Hes coming for a Bride not a harlot.
3.6 billion people have not heard the gospel.
The Single Life
Why being single is not a disease.
Suffering
A power outage during the World Series or Super Bowl.
Supernatural Phenomenon
Why the supernatural
is being demonstrated on the
Psychic Friends Network
and not in my church.
Selective Christianity
How to know the
fellowship of His suffering,
but not too much.
How to know the
reality of my daily cross
and self denial;
as long as it doesnt interfere with my lifestyle.
Why I accept
Jesus as Savior
but not as Lord.
Sin
How to understand
the consequences of sin,
for somebody else.
Why we beat up
homosexuals
but excuse
obese gossips,
who backbite.
Theological Dilemmas
How to weep between
the porch and the altar;
when I dont have a porch.
Joel 1.13
How to earn over
a hundred thousand a year,
drive a BMW,
move into a bigger house in the right neighborhood,
and
be a servant.
How to have upward mobility and humble myself.
How to practice
righteousness,
when I dont know the definition of the word.
How to enjoy the dealings of God.
How to be a fool for Christ and like it.
How to be childlike without being childish.
How to be of
no reputation,
when youve worked all your life to have a good one.
How to compete and prefer one another simultaneously.
How to resolve
the disparity between,
Freely you have received
freely give,
with
Teaching tapes, (audio $5.95; video $19.95)
Books, (with an autograph party)
and
A pre-conference special at $150.00,
entitled,
How Do the Poor Pay?
The Truth
Why having a broken and contrite spirit scares me.
Tongues of Fire
Gossip, slander, backbiting.
Unwise
Asking the pastors wife
if the pastor practices what he preaches at home.
Vengeance
How to not
enjoy watching someone get their due,
when you know they deserve it.
Why?
Do they write evangelistic articles and publish them in Christian magazines?
Do they produce evangelistic TV programs and air them on Christian television?
Do they produce evangelistic radio programs and air them on Christian radio stations?
Do they write evangelistic songs about giving your life to Jesus and sing them to Christians?
Do they write evangelistic books and put them only in Christian bookstores?
Why did the pastor run away with the organist and her organ?
Why is reading this stuff making me mad?
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