The Rant

A former co-worker coined the phrase when I offered to let her listen to one of my sermons on CD. She said, "Sure, I'll listen to Tom rant about Jesus." At first it sounded funny, but the more I thought about it the more it seemed to fit. That's what we, as preachers, pretty much do. We rant about Jesus. In 1 Corinthians 2:2 the Apostle Paul says, "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." That's it. Jesus. Who He is, and what He did, and what it means for us. That's my job, or calling, or anointing. To preach Christ. Jesus is in every book of the Bible. The entire volume speaks of Him. If you don't see Jesus, you're looking at it wrong.

So that's what I'm going to continue to do in this forum: Rant about Jesus.

My hope is to Rant every night by 9:00 pm, so check daily for new blogs.

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Friendship part 5

05/05/2017 17:22

Friends are people you choose to love. Words of wisdom from my five year old. And as far as I'm concerned, its easier to just choose to love everybody. Because love is not about what people can, or have, or will do for you. Love is about what you can do for them. Giving everything you are and...

Friendship part 4

05/04/2017 18:16

I'm trying to say loving people leads to liking them. That's my point. You don't have to be someone's friend to love them. Because if you love them it might just start a friendship. Because in order to love someone you give them everything you have and everything you are, right? You be nice to...

Friendship part 3

05/03/2017 17:10

The point I was trying to get to yesterday, in my "wander around I hope I found my point somewhere along the way" way, is that I don't think you can love someone without BEING fond of them. Which is not to say you should only love the people you're fond of. Exactly the opposite. The more you love...

Friendship part 2

05/02/2017 17:57

The greatest love a man can have is to lay down his life for his friends. To give everything he has and everything he is, no matter how its received. And, as we kind of saw yesterday, we are all friends. Even if we don't know it yet. This, to me, really goes back to all those Rants and sermons I've...

Friendship part 1

05/01/2017 17:10

This Rant series was Logan's idea. I asked him what I should Rant about and he said, "Don't you always just talk about love?" Um... yes. "Friends are people you choose to love," he pointed out. And he's right. Because according to Jesus, according to John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this,...

Patience part 5

04/30/2017 17:21

You can't make anybody do anything. That was one of the first, best, and most important things my pastor ever taught me when I started to get into the ministry. People are going to do what they want to do. That's human nature. And a lot of the time it seems like people are going to do what you...

Patience part 4

04/29/2017 18:12

I have found, through much trial and error, that a lot of the time things work themselves out. A lot of the time, even though I'm trying to help, I end up hurting the situation. Because a lot of the time I'm not patient enough. I try to do things I ought not be doing and it makes situations a lot...

Patience part 3

04/28/2017 19:10

There's an interesting story in 2 Samuel chapter 16. And its a little bit lengthy, but I think its worth getting into. A man is throwing curses at King David. Then this happens, "Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I...

Patience part 2

04/27/2017 18:17

This is where I think I wanted to get to yesterday, and where the idea for this Rant series came from: "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also" (Matthew 5:39). And somehow, it seems like we preach this verse as if...

Patience part 1

04/26/2017 17:12

If there's one thing my job has taught me--and to be sure, it teaches me things every day--it's that a little bit of patience goes a long way. When a situation is starting to get to point of escalation, a calm voice in the midst of the storm can do a lot to get things back to good. And, by the way,...

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