Step 1: Select a text. This can be done in any one of a thousand ways except consulting the Lectionary. After all, it’s much better to simply open your Bible at random and leave it up to random chance the unknowable movings of the Spirit than to have some other man telling you which verses [...]

I don’t know why I posted this. The only possible reason I can think of is that I secretly dislike you all very much. I mean, could there be any other reason for inflicting this kind of pointless pain on you?

1 Corinthians 13 as found in the greater annotated Saved, Separated, And Soul-Winning Study Bible Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels (not that those gifts are still for today you understand), and have not charity(which is such a much better word that “love” don’t you think?) , I am become as [...]

Many thanks to Don from our whole SFL community for sticking this out and reporting on what he saw. It’s been an experience to read it all Well, this is the final installment. I will admit this one was the hardest to get through. However, I had an epiphany from this week of “Preaching” and [...]

Thursday: Day 4 Opening Song: “Are you washed in the Blood” Opening Monologue (by Shelton Smith): – Talks about Worldly rehab efforts –v- Reformers Unanimous. – Some one asked a county officially where they live about the success rate of the governments rehab efforts and the guy just laughed and said, “Success? We don’t care [...]

Don is taking a well-deserved break today with his meeting summaries but for those of you who just can’t get enough of this stuff, the audio of a few slightly older sermons from these speakers are up over at the Grace Baptist Church website — including some sermons preached earlier this year that look scarily [...]

*Personal Note From Don: Folks, while I appreciate the good words and encouragement I do not want this to be about me. This week is about the excesses and outright error to be found in the IFB world. I found that by the end of the week I was dealing with a mixture of emotions. [...]

Tuesday: Day Two Introduction of next speaker: Lou Rossi Announcements: (sic) “Some of our men and ladies who went out soulwinning this afternoon in downtown Winston, they have turned in cards and reports on al least 12 people trusting Christ. Some of the folks haven’t reported in yet so there’ll be more than that.” And [...]

If you’ve been on SFL for a while, you’ll remember that last year an anonymous attendee passed along his observations of the Sword of the Lord Conference. Well this year we’ve done one better with our very own SFL personality Don (who was accompanied on a few of the nights by another reader) attending each [...]

Jack Trieber, “pastor” of North Valley Baptist Church, practices a little blasphemy in a sermon from September 26, 2007 by substituting “the pastor” for “the Lord” in Psalm 23. Keep your eyes peeled for MULTIPLE white piano sightings. If you’ve got the stomach, you can catch the entire sermon including demands that “all money in [...]