Writings
She stormed into my office, exasperation dripping from her voice, demanding to know whether the Bible had anything to say about teenagers. So I said: “Why do you ask?” One hour later, she was still telling me why she was asking. Eventually, we got around to the matter at hand…. namely, the Bible and teenagers.
I have written in this week’s Steeple Notes of my life-long fascination with rolltop desks. Which are no good for writing sermons, given their scarcity of working space. But which are great for storing stuff, given their abundance of nooks and crannies, slots and drawers, shelves and cubbyholes. For the beauty of a rolltop desk is not in the stuff you can stash there, but in the stuff you can separate there.
Somewhere on God’s green earth lives a lady named Runa Ware, who has written a book entitled All Those in Favor, Say Something. I have not read her book, but Kline Roberts has. And he has shared with me this little slice of her story. She begins:
In the midst of researching a sermon on the relationship between forgiving and forgetting (which I have yet to preach, because I have yet to figure it out), I stumbled on a sermon with the fascinating title, “Forgiving Your Ex”….as in “former spouse,” “prior partner,” that kind of“ex.” Since I have no “ex” to forgive (or forget), I was able to read the sermon with more curiosity than passion.
