Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:16)
Having been raised in the church by parents who required my faithful attendance, I have been subjected to well over 2,000 sermons and 1,000 Sunday School lessons in my roughly 40 years of consciousness. This does not even include the thousands of hours of preaching I’ve seen and heard on TV, radio, audio tape (that was before CD’s) and the internet. And yet, after having been flooded by a veritable tsunami of instruction, I’m having a hard time recalling much. Even the most well crafted and convicting of messages have grown a bit foggy over the years.
Though it is good to listen and indeed it is absolutely necessary for me to hear the Gospel again and again (for faith comes by hea