A few weeks ago I did something I rarely do–I sat with the congregation and listened to a sermon. It doesn’t happen often. In most years, I speak 47-50 weeks per year. The few Sundays I don’t preach, I’m normally traveling. But on this particular Sunday I was looking at the stage instead of standing on it. As I listened, I wrote down things that struck me. Many of those things were paraphrases of theContinue Reading…