According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of the word Cannibal is as follows: a person who eats the flesh of human beings or an animal that eats its own kind.* “Eating your own kind” may seem like a good survival strategy in dire circumstances, but over the long haul, such an approach to living results in extinction. In the cannibalistic culture, eventually there is no one left to devour but yourself.

Devour.  It is a word used by the apostle Paul to describe the legalism that infiltrated the churches of Galatia.  He said it like this, “But if ye bite …

Chatter: Do you hear it? It’s all around.  People talking about this, voicing their opinions about that. It’s omnipresent in so many ways.  From podcasts to political pundits, we are inundated with the sound of meaningless, trivial, non-relenting noise.  What seems like mass, chaotic clamor coming from a thousand different directions, however, is actually the culmination of a much-greater and sinister ploy.

With so many voices jockeying for our attention, we have insulated ourselves within the racketing walls of nothingness.  We hear much, but the heart is deaf.  This is the strategy of our enemy.  He has so manipulated

Contrary to popular belief, you can be saved and enjoy it.  As a matter of fact, the only real way to enjoy this earthly life is by possessing eternal life.  If Christians are to be the happiest people on earth, shouldn’t the place they congregate be equally joyful?  Church should be a place of excitement…oftentimes it is anything but that.

They do sound similar…sanctuary, cemetery.

A sanctuary is a place of the living; a cemetery is a place of the dead.  A sanctuary functions in light, a cemetery functions in darkness.  A sanctuary is a place where we eagerly desire …

The modern pastor has to be many things to many people on many different levels at many different times.  He is a preacher, a counselor, an administrator, an evangelist, a visionary, a superintendent, a shepherd, a coach, a husband, a father, a confidant, a teacher, an organizer, a speaker, a worship leader, and a follower of Jesus Christ.  Too often, we (congregants and pastors alike) forget that he is first and foremost something else: human…flawed, fleshly, feeble human.

Is the pastor to lead with repute and character?  Absolutely. 

Is he to set forth an example of holiness and godliness in …