What Happened to Grace?
In the past month I've been doing a series of sermons on urban legends, spiritual myths. Each week I have taken apart a common cliche that Christians use, that is commonly held to be true and even scriptural, but which is anything but Biblical or Christian. I planned out the sermons several months ago, but hesitated about it right up until the last. Am I ever glad I didn't second-guess myself out of doing them! These sermons have been great fun to prepare and have sparked me to think about something larger within Christendom and American culture. The first four sermons took on the following sayings that are very commonly accepted, but which are not Biblical: "God needed another angel," "Everything happens for a reason," "God won't give you more than you can handle," and "God helps those who help themselves." None of them are in the Bible, and to one degree or another represent wretched theology. They represent an attempt to un