by Bill Rowley | May 14, 2024 | Church, Sabbath, World Christianity
Let’s Go to Ethiopia! Here’s a fun exercise with a spiritual payoff. Go to Google Maps and view aerial images of the South Gondar zone of Ethiopia. Use this button: Google Maps When the page loads, you’ll see a light brown countryside, mostly farmland....
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jul 8, 2020 | Church, Community, Ministry, Sermon Illustrations
One of the seductions that continues to bedevil Christian obedience is the construction of utopias, whether in fact or fantasy, ideal places where we can live the good and blessed and righteous life without inhibition or interference. The imagining and attempted...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 15, 2019 | Church, Sermon Illustrations
In her excellent book, Liturgy of the Ordinary, author Tish Harrison Warren deals with an issue on many people’s minds: why is it that so many people, especially younger generations, don’t consider church an essential part of their life and faith? Warren...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Oct 23, 2018 | Church, Sermon Illustrations
It is a phone call no parent wants to receive. “Jerry,” Bethany said, “Catherine’s had a little accident.” “Accident! How bad?” “She’s going to be okay. You want to talk to her? We’re in a kind of ambulance crossing the Andes, headed down to Quito. Here she...
