Once I drove over an hour to hear a preacher, When he got up to speak he announced he would prove that Cain was born before Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden. I wondered two things to myself: How will he do that and what does that have to do with my salvation? He spoke for an hour. When he got through two questions were on my mind: How can he prove his point and what does it have to do with my salvation? I would have done better to stay home and watch a ball game…
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In most congregations it’s customary after an assembly for the preacher to stand at the door of the meeting house and shake hands with folks as they exit. I do that, too — but I confess that I never have really gotten used to it. It’s not that I don’t want to talk to people. The problem is that I do want to talk to people, and that’s difficult to do in a receiving line. In order to speak to everyone who files past, you can’t say much more than “Have a nice day” or…
