March 31, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
| Tags: celebrity, Pastor, Sunday, Jesus, shepherd
Human beings have always wanted someone to look up to who is bigger than themselves. The infatuation we have with superheroes in America proves the point. We realize that as frail, feeble human beings, someone else must provide what we indeed do not have for ourselves. This celebrity status of vesting our hopes and dreams in another is something we are all tempted to do. ...
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March 29, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
One of the most lethal forms of spiritual corrosion is bitterness that leads to a grudge. I have never yet known a person who did not either hold a grudge against someone or felt he or she had a reason to. Yet examples and admonitions from Scripture show us why holding a grudge is wrong and how dangerous it can be in the life of a Christian:...
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March 22, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
| Tags: preachers kids, Pastor, children, love, encourage
Stereotypes are rarely true and often offensive, which means they should be challenged whenever possible. That’s especially true of the stereotypes about “preachers’ kids.” This is a subject I can address with some confidence since I have been a pastor’s son since age 11, and my children have known nothing but their dad being a pastor. ...
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March 21, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
| Tags: God, near, Jesus, suffering, faith, love, hope, close
Recently I wondered to myself: do other Christians sometimes not “feel” God’s nearness? Not a day or so later, I heard a famous preacher speak about seasons in life when God seems distant. I guess I am not the only one after all!
In fact, the Bible is full of stories of people of God who felt a distance from their Creator. We may be tempted to think that those who h...
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March 15, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
How did Martin Luther really feel about the term "Lutherans"-- and how does this apply to modern Christians? ...
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March 14, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
I imagine the average church member is about as interested in procedures of pastoral placement as they are parliamentary procedures of the United States Senate. The topic sounds about as interesting as watching grass grow
Yet what if I told you that one of the many factors contributing to the challenges facing American Evangelical Christianity is the way pastors are place...
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March 8, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
| Tags: church, worship, instrumentation, worship style, public worship, Christianity, Evangelical
It seems like Evangelicalism’s so-called “worship wars” go back just a few generations – but as a matter of fact, the church throughout its history has wrestled with changing music, instrumentation and styles in its public worship services....
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March 6, 2023
by Pastor Seth Alcorn
There are some conversations that no one wants to have but we all need to have. The issue of pornography is one elephant in the room that needs to be discussed. But where do we even begin with such a difficult conversation?...
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