Six Common Mistakes Made by Preachers from the Pulpit

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Podcast Episode #552

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Preachers sometimes say some strange things from the pulpit. Today, we discuss some of the things that get said that can cause problems for a preacher.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

  • One of the most common mistakes preachers often make is attributing a quote to someone who didn’t actually say it.
  • If you’re going to use stats in a sermon, research and cite the original source.
  • When using a church member as a sermon illustration, always get their permission first.
  • Number one rule for guest preachers: honor your time slot. Don’t go over.

The six mistakes we discuss are:

  1. Quoting something someone did not say.
  2. Saying “statistics show”
  3. Using someone else’s illustration as your own
  4. Using a point in a sermon to fight verbally with a church member
  5. Mispronouncing words in the Bible
  6. Not honoring a church host’s request when you are a guest preacher

Resources mentioned in today’s podcast

Rainer on Leadership is a member of the LifeWay Leadership Podcast Network

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125th Trump Judge Gets Confirmed: ‘They’ve Been Excellent’ for Religious Liberty

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125th Trump Judge Gets Confirmed: ‘They’ve Been Excellent’ for Religious Liberty


125th Trump Judge Gets Confirmed: ‘They’ve Been Excellent’ for Religious Liberty


With little fanfare, the U.S. Senate in June confirmed the 125th federal court nominee of President Trump, continuing a brisk pace that is dramatically reshaping the judiciary into a more conservative bent.


That number grew to 127 this week when the Senate approved Daniel Bress to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. 


The federal judiciary is comprised of three levels: the district court, the court of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Although Trump’s confirmation pace for all judges is similar to previous presidents for their first two years, he is far ahead of recent presidents for appeals court confirmations — or as one analyst put it, “big league” confirmations, according to an analysis by The Hill.


Trump saw 30 appeals court justices confirmed in his first two years, a timeframe that ended in January. That pace was ahead of that of George H.W. Bush (22), Reagan (19), Clinton (19), George W. Bush (17), Obama (16) and Carter (12). 


Bress was the 42nd appeals court confirmation.  


“To use a baseball analogy, you can’t just look at how many players did a team sign, right? There’s such a big difference between signing a player to the big leagues and signing someone to a Single-A contract,” Mark Carl Rom, a Georgetown University government and public policy professor, told Roll Call.


“The big…

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Preparing for asteroids we don’t know about: How God can make us ‘great’

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Preparing for asteroids we don’t know about: How God can make us ‘great’

Let’s start with the good news: according to the Wall Street Journal, scientists have not identified a single asteroid that will collide with our planet within the next century. Now to the bad news: hundreds of thousands of near-Earth asteroids have not been identified.

As an example of this problem, a relatively small, sixty-foot-wide asteroid exploded in the atmosphere near a city in Russia six years ago, creating a blast wave that injured more than a thousand people. No one had seen it coming. 

Assuming scientists could spot an asteroid coming our way, they are not sure they could deflect it. NASA intends to launch a test in two years to try deflecting a nonthreatening asteroid called Didymos. But we are not close to even a modest planetary defense capability today. 

A couple has twins that aren’t theirs 

The unpredictability of life is a fact of life highlighted in the news every day. 

For instance, Los Angeles Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy was taken off the field on a stretcher Sunday night after a collision with a Houston Astros player at home plate. He was diagnosed yesterday with a concussion and a broken nose. 

The one-year-old daughter of an Indiana police officer died Sunday night after falling from a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico. She was being held by her grandfather when she slipped out of his arms and plunged eleven floors to the concrete dock below. 

And a New York couple is suing a fertility clinic, claiming that it impregnated them with the wrong embryos. The Asian-American parents gave birth in March, expecting female twins, but delivered two male boys, neither of whom was of Asian descent. They then had to give the boys up to their biological parents. 

A countercultural paradox 

Yesterday I discussed the importance of making every moment count. In Greek terms, we are seeking kairos (the quality of life) in our chronos (the quantity…

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‘War on drugs’ harms the poor says Christian Aid

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‘War on drugs’ harms the poor says Christian Aid

According to a report published by Christian Aid, ill-conceived law enforcement practices and the criminalisation of illegal businesses are destroying livelihoods and negatively impacting the lives of the world’s poorest people.

Karol Balfe, who leads Christian Aid’s peace-building work, told Premier the current methods to prevent the production and distribution of narcotics are simply not working and “the cure has been worse than the disease.”

 

She added: “We see crop eradication, which has caused displacement and deforestation for people from where they work and live, and actually does little to reduce the cultivation of coca or opium.

“Aerial fumigation – the spreading of carcinogenic chemicals on illicit crops, damages people’s health and their environment. And the use of military and law enforcement operations has led to egregious human rights violations. The most extreme of those in countries like Philippines where we’ve seen 27,000 people extra judicially killed since the state launched its war on drugs.”

Christian Aid argues that for some marginalised groups in countries like Afghanistan, Colombia, and Myanmar, illegal drug trades are a means of survival and although criminalised industries expose poor communities to violence and exploitation, they also provide income, employment, and protection.

The report, developed as part of a Global Challenges Research…

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Five Reasons for Failure When Leading Change

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Five Reasons for Failure When Leading Change

  1. Not praying
  2. Not assessing unintended consequences
  3. Not communicating
  4. Not dealing with people issues
  5. Not modeling positive leadership

Some highlights from today’s Rainer Report:

  • Prayer is the foundational point for leading change.
  • Be intentional about thinking through unintended consequences.
  • When leading change, you have to overcommunicate.
  • Not communicating effectively is a recipe for failure when leading change.

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California Officially Becomes the First State to Offer Free Health Insurance to Some Undocumented Immigrants

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California Officially Becomes the First State to Offer Free Health Insurance to Some Undocumented Immigrants


California Officially Becomes the First State to Offer Free Health Insurance to Some Undocumented Immigrants


California has officially become the first state to offer health insurance to some illegal immigrants.


According to CNN, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several bills on Tuesday including SB-104 which will allow low-income individuals between the ages of 19 and 25 living illegally in the state of California to receive health insurance for free or at a discounted rate through the state’s Medicaid program – Medi-Cal.


According to USA Today, California legislators suggested a plan that also included providing free health insurance for undocumented immigrants over the age of 65 living in California. Reportedly, Newsome rejected this proposal on an account that it was too expensive. 


As Christian Headlines previously reported, the bill was included in the state’s 2020 budget plan. The plan was proposed by Governor Newsom and is estimated to cost some $98 million out of the state’s total $213 billion budget. The law is set to go into effect in January 2020.


According to CNN, California lawmakers determined that in order to pay for the program, citizens who do not have health insurance will be penalized and required to pay a fee. The penalty fees will then be used to pay for health insurance for young adults living illegally in California.


In a Facebook live stream of a press conference at a California health center…

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The legacy of Ross Perot: How to be your best self

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The legacy of Ross Perot: How to be your best self

Ross Perot died yesterday morning in Dallas after a five-month battle with leukemia. He was eighty-nine.

Whether you live in Dallas or Denmark, you probably know of Mr. Perot through his two campaigns for president and his pioneering work in computer services that made him a billionaire. 

But if that’s all you know of him, you missed the most significant part of him. 

Write your own legacy 

I met Mr. Perot and his wife, Margot, at various functions in Dallas over the years and know him primarily through my friendship with his son, Ross Perot Jr. But everywhere I travel in Dallas, I meet his legacy. 

The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center was built in part through a $10 million donation from Mr. Perot, who insisted that the center be named not for himself but for his longtime business partner. Mr. Perot and his wife made contributions to medical care in our city exceeding $100 million. 

His work on improving schools and caring for our nation’s POWs and veterans was groundbreaking. The rescue he organized for company employees imprisoned in Iran became the basis for Ken Follett’s 1983 nonfiction book, On Wings of Eagles, and a TV miniseries. 

If you read the Dallas Morning News profile of Mr. Perot, you’ll get a sense of the man and his enduring significance to our city. If you read the Washington Post profile, you’ll see a much more negative, politicized agenda at work. (In fact, it’s hard for me to believe that the person who wrote the Post obituary ever met the man or his family.) 

Therein lies my point today: if you want to leave your best legacy, write it yourself. Focus on who you are more than what you do. Care less about what the world thinks of you than what you can do for the world. 

As Ross Perot told a reporter who asked what he wanted to be remembered for: “Aw, I don’t worry about that.” Be your best self and leave the results to…

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Family of church caretaker shocked after misconduct proceedings end over custody-linked death

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Family of church caretaker shocked after misconduct proceedings end over custody-linked death

Ken and Alison Orchard said they were not surprised at the decision to end disciplinary hearings against two sergeants and two constables.

They hit out at Devon and Cornwall Police for its “incompetence, negligence and sloppy practices” in relation to the death of their son Thomas.

 

“Strangely, we are not surprised, and yet deeply shocked,” they said.

“Despite their being charged with behaviour that could amount to gross misconduct, no further action will be taken against four police officers whose actions, together with others, in our opinion, directly led to Thomas’ death.

“And this is because of, what we believe to be, incompetence, negligence and sloppy practices from the very people and processes that were meant to protect our son.

“We are not surprised because, in our assessment, we have witnessed it again and again over the past seven years.

“We are not surprised because, to be honest, we never really had any faith in this tribunal, believing it to be an investigation held – only reluctantly after direction from the IOPC – by the police, for the police.

“However, we also remain deeply shocked. As a family we used to believe in the system; we believed that if something bad happened, justice would be served.”But no-one and no process that we have witnessed to date has fully explored – openly, honestly and constructively – the catastrophic failings surrounding…

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