Author: Pastor Recoil

Christians really like talking about the prodigal son, but what if the prodigal wasn’t the one who really was lost? Continue reading “Sometimes What’s Lost is Right Under Your Nose”

This is a text that, in the past, I’ve made fun of Baptist “turn or burn” preachers with. I’ve grown a bit; This time I’m hoping we’ll look at it from a little different angle. Continue reading “Burning Turning Curling?”

Abram/Abraham had to wait a while for God to fulfill his promise, but God still did.  25 years is a long time to wait for a kid when you’re 75 and your wife is 65, but wait they did, and laughed a bit, but mostly waited. Continue reading “Sometimes You Wait a Long Time”

So, Wednesday was all about sin; today is all about the temptation to sin.  Have at ye! Continue reading “Temptationy Temptations”

Talking about sin, in large part because we don’t really know what it is even though it’s kind of the big deal of Lent. Continue reading “Sin and Ash Wednesday”

Talking about prayer today, specifically why we bother at all. Continue reading “Do or Do Not…”

There’s a passage in the middle of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians that is never read in context.  Instead it’s read at just about every wedding, in large part because it’s pretty and talks about love.  But really, it has absolutely nothing to do with weddings, because no one actually reads the Bible anymore, they just skim the bits they like (or don’t like). Continue reading “Love, Weddings, and How Everyone Got It Wrong”

Words. Actually kind of meh about this one, but oh well. These things happen. Continue reading “Because He Said So”

Every so often, an idea pops into my head that is so random, so inexplicable, so unexpected, that I have to write a sermon about it. Here goes: Continue reading “The Golgafrincham Problem”