When I began to explore my calling as a pastor, I latched onto the images of the Old Testament prophets. Who could have been a better role model for a young pastor than Elijah calling down fire from heaven or Elisha calling bears to attack the boys who taunted him? Red-faced, fist-swinging, veins bulging, Holy Ghost preaching was what the …
Hope is found in the very circumstances that cause despair. Paul wrote about hope with these words in Romans 8:24 is this: “For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?” Paul’s exposition is that in hope we are saved. The Christian pulpit has long noted that men are not …
Judges 3:31; 5:6 In the spring of 1979, I was a sales representative for the 3M Corporation. I graduated in 1976 from Stephen F. Austin State University with a bachelors in business administration. I went to work for 3M as a result of my choice. When I graduated from college my car was a wreck. You see, 3M provided me …
Michael Quicke challenges us to be preachers who confront false hope by opening up to the wonder of Christian hope and the practice of it every day.
