Tag Archives: Street Theater

LIFE IN THE FISH BOWL. Ezekiel 24:16,18.

Imagine a goldfish, swimming around a glass bowl all day, his every move on display. No privacy. Pastor’s families live in a fish bowl: everything they do is watched by the church—watched and judged. It is not easy. Being in ministry means living selflessly. When you “put on the collar” people see you differently. YourContinue reading “LIFE IN THE FISH BOWL. Ezekiel 24:16,18.”

STREET THEATER 3: Runaway Scrape. Ezekiel 11:19-20; 12:2-5, 10-13.

Trump gets Covid-19 one month before the election. Coincidence or sign from God? I don’t know. But in November of 2020, EVERYONE was talking about it! If it had happened in ancient Israel, people would have SCRUTINIZED this thing with a jeweler’s loop trying to figure out what it means. People in pre-enlightenment cultures consideredContinue reading “STREET THEATER 3: Runaway Scrape. Ezekiel 11:19-20; 12:2-5, 10-13.”

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.”