Across the Preacher’s Desk: Mistaken Identity

(Note: I wish I could claim originality for this, but I found it in a file in my office, I have had it for many years and it contains some valuable food for thought.)

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Happy Thanksgiving

November 29, 2024 - It’s Thanksgiving Day! It will be a day of good food and family time and watching football games. Most of us will eat much more than we should and then wonder why we ate everything we did when we are so miserable. I often wonder if among the food, family and football if we really pause to realize just how much we have to be thankful for.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Read Your Bible

November 14, 2024 - During the middle part of the 20th century, one of the most popular religious writers was Norman Vincent Peale.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: The Problems of Life

November 7, 2024 - Have you ever noticed how complicated some folks want to make religion? We live in a world of problems. Preachers even spend a lot of time pointing out the problems of our time.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Commitment to Jesus

November 1, 2024 - I once read where someone said the most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap over a chasm in two jumps. That ranks right up there with the story of the young boy who cut his puppy’s tail off an inch at the time so it wouldn’t hurt so badly by cutting the entire tail off all at once.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Being Narrow Minded

October 24, 2024 - Believe it or not, there have been times I have been accused of being too “narrow minded” when it comes to spiritual matters. Yet, Jesus said in Matthew 7:14, “Strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.” There are actually other areas of life where you find narrow-mindedness.

There is no room for being broadminded in the chemical laboratory. Water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. The slightest deviation from this formula means you do not have water.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Waiting For The Hearse

October 17, 2024 - In our world today, it seems that more and more people care little or nothing for the things of God. There are many who never think of being in the assembly when the saints of God have gathered. Often we speak of these as “waiting for the hearse to take them to church.” Let me ask.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: The Three R’s

October 10, 2024 - King David, the man after God’s own heart could not build a temple, but he wrote a psalm! Three temples, one after another, crumbled in the dust, but the psalm lives today in the hearts of millions. Through three thousand years, the Twenty-Third Psalm has been a source of inspiration.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Love Your Enemies

October 3, 2024 - The great defense attorney Clarence Darrow once said, “Everyone is a potential murderer. I have not killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction out of obituary notices”. We find humor in that because it comes so close to the truth of our lives.

Across the Preacher’s Desk: Slow Down!

September 26, 2024 - Why do we live in such a mad rush? Why have you been racing about all day as though today is your last day on earth? Why do you sit and pat your foot impatiently when your telephone call is a little slow going through?

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Submitted by Tim Perkins