Red Letter Revolution

1. Someone use the phrase “Plugged in.”

2. Sermons that pretend to be expository but are really topical.

3. The Worship leader mini-sermon. Praise songs may be so poorly written they need an interpreter, but I don’t want to hear your three minute mini-sermon. It’s especially bad when all the vocalists each do one.

4. The collections mini-sermon. This is incredibly common out here in California and it may just be that its weird because I’m not used to it, but I have been to several services at different churches out here that had a 5-10 minute mini-sermon before the main sermon just on giving.

5. Pastors using multiple translations in the course of one sermon.

6. The three point fill in the blank handouts.

7. The invasion of pop-psychology into Sermons.

8. 40 Days of anything. I’d donate a 100 bucks to any church that does 41+ days of purpose/love/whatever.

9. Politics

10. Dispensationalism

I know I haven’t posted in forever. I’ve got lots of posts in various states of completion. I’ve decided to abandon the week by week format, because I’m guessing it is probably boring to read. I’ll probably be posting life updates once or twice a month.

More important than that though is a prayer request I’d like you guys to spread around and include in the Sunday evening prayers at Windsor. A good friend out here got the unfortunate news that her mother has been diagnosed with heart failure. Not many details are known at this time, but I covet your prayers in this matter for the sake of my friend. As someone who has spent many hours thinking about his mother’s illnesses and having had to seriously ponder a life without her, I think I can relate to what she is going through. I love you all and miss you.