Dry Rot and Worms / Appearances Can Deceive / Gay Soap Opera / Persecution a Reality for Many Christians

Dry Rot and Worms D. Stuart Briscoe in A Passion For Preaching tells this story from which both those of us who preach and those of us who hear the preaching might learn: An English vicar with his mind on decaying buildings announced one day that the offertory about to be taken would be devoted in its entirety to the extermination of ay rot in the pulpit and worms in the pew. Inadvertently he had touched a nerve. Not infrequently the rot in the pulpit is so dry that it causes the people to...