Preach Pastor Manning! Make it plain! You do what I call hard preaching. Too many so called pastors give psychological, self-help sermons. Friendly, but of no use. They didn’t make ANYONE straighten up. They didn’t give anything hard. At least sometimes we do need to hear a hard word, a word that names our failures and self-deceptions, a word that causes us to straighten up and do better. Some speak of this experience as being “convicted,” which seems to be a way of saying, “You were talking about me, preacher. You got my number.”
Preach Pastor Manning! Make it plain! You do what I call hard preaching. Too many so called pastors give psychological, self-help sermons. Friendly, but of no use. They didn’t make ANYONE straighten up. They didn’t give anything hard. At least sometimes we do need to hear a hard word, a word that names our failures and self-deceptions, a word that causes us to straighten up and do better. Some speak of this experience as being “convicted,” which seems to be a way of saying, “You were talking about me, preacher. You got my number.”