Tag Archives: Ezekiel

We Cannot Save Ourselves. Ezekiel 16:63.

There is a great story in Ezekiel 16. God compares His rescue of Israel to the rescue of abandoned newborns. He saves them, nurtures them, feeds, clothes, and adorns them with jewelry. He makes them beautiful, redeems their broken lives and makes them amazing. And what happens? They become proud of their beauty and makeContinue reading “We Cannot Save Ourselves. Ezekiel 16:63.”

THE SCANDAL OF THE SERMON ILLUSTRATION. Ezekiel 1-4.

We have gotten carried away with sermon illustrations. One Sunday morning I turned on the television to discover that Woodlands, Texas, pastor Kerry Shook had had truckload after truckload of dirt hauled into his church and piled on the stage.  Stage left bore a thirty-foot mound of dirt and stage right bore a thirty-foot moundContinue reading “THE SCANDAL OF THE SERMON ILLUSTRATION. Ezekiel 1-4.”

STREET THEATER. Ezekiel 3:3; 4:1-17.

You’ve seen the guy painted silver who pretends to be a statue. And the juggler with bowling pins, the guy who “swallows” flaming swords, the magicians, drummers, and tap dancers in the French Quarter. Street theater is nothing like THEATER-theater. It’s not a play—there’s no script, and usually a cast of only one. Often there’sContinue reading “STREET THEATER. Ezekiel 3:3; 4:1-17.”

Street Theater.

Street theater is the man playing the saxophone between the skyscrapers in downtown Houston. It’s children tap dancing in the French Quarter with bottle caps nailed to their sneakers.  It’s breakdancers turning Bourbon Street into a stage, spinning on their heads to the accompaniment of kids drumming on overturned 5-gallon buckets.  There are buskers singingContinue reading “Street Theater.”