by Clint Harrison | Feb 2, 2023 | Christian Life, Magazine
When I was in Kindergarten, I dreamt up an out-of-this-world kingdom. It was a fort in the woods with trap doors, crossbows, and a drawbridge. All day long I told my friend about it. Of course, I left out the part about it being imaginary. “Yeah, it’s just behind...
by Clint Harrison | Jan 7, 2022 | Christian Life, Message Series
Several years ago, my brother-in-law laughingly mentioned that he’d been attending his church for four years and never once heard a sermon outside the book of John. It was the kind of church where congregants carried Greek Lexicons to service, and pastors took a...
by Clint Harrison | Sep 11, 2021 | Christian Life
If you’re feeling the weight of all that’s transpired in the past two years, you’re not alone. Ironically, that may be part of the problem. There’s a term in psychology called “collective trauma,” and it refers to trauma experienced by a group of people – the hostages...
by Clint Harrison | Jun 4, 2021 | Christian Life
I love talking with pastors from different churches. Through the years I’ve met lots of them – seminary buddies who’ve planted churches; friends and former co-workers who serve in churches large and small, urban and rural, Baptist and Episcopal, and every denomination...
by Clint Harrison | Feb 3, 2021 | Christian Life
Borrow the Prayers of the Puritans Sometimes when you don’t know what to pray, it helps to borrow the prayers of someone else. I love Puritan prayers because I don’t talk the way they did. I don’t even think the way they did! Listen to this excerpt from The Valley of...
