The Last Word: Insights About the Church and Ministry

The Last Word......Page 2
Foreword......Page 3
A First Word......Page 5
A Tough Way to Make a Living......Page 6
Feedback......Page 8
What I’m Trying to Say Is.........Page 9
Sermon Slips......Page 11
Sowing Rather Than Reaping......Page 12
Sermons with Some Size......Page 13
Poetic Preachers......Page 15
The Rewards of Good Preaching......Page 16
For God’s Sake......Page 18
Did You Hear What I Heard?......Page 20
I’m Not OK, OK?......Page 22
So You Want to Preach?......Page 25
Talk About It......Page 27
Talking About God......Page 28
Sermon Outline......Page 31
The Perils of Not Passing By on the Other Side......Page 33
Pastoral Pugilism......Page 35
The Extravagant Vocation......Page 38
Practical Theology......Page 39
Be Imitators of Me......Page 41
Busy Pastors......Page 42
I Was Vanna’s Pastor......Page 43
Just Say No......Page 45
Influence Incognito......Page 46
To Tell the Truth......Page 48
Give of Your Best to the Master......Page 52
Meaning the Music......Page 54
Fearful, Wonderful Worship......Page 56
Quitting Time?......Page 57
Great Moments in Worship......Page 59
Getting Our Rites Right......Page 60
The Church Is Not Our Cadillac......Page 62
Divine Wisdom Among Little Old Ladies......Page 64
Ambiguous Epiphany......Page 65
Be Reconciled......Page 66
A Child’s Sermon......Page 68
Pat and Me......Page 70
Keeping Work in Its Place......Page 71
Ministry to Those Not in Crisis......Page 73
The Visit......Page 74
Pastoral Conversation......Page 76
Ministrations......Page 78
Do You Know Where Your Children Are?......Page 80
The Reverend Grandma......Page 82
Going Public with the Peculiar......Page 85
Reaching Out to the Gloom and Doomers......Page 86
Campus Ministry In Loco Parentis......Page 88
Church Growth......Page 89
Baby Boomer Bloopers......Page 91
Operators Are Standing By......Page 93
Secularity Lite......Page 95
Open the Door......Page 96
A Big Church......Page 98
The Body of Christ......Page 100
The Unassimilatable Mr. Gomes......Page 101
The Last Word: Insights About the Church and Ministry......Page 104