“How to Know Your Life’s Purpose in 5 Minutes” was the name of a Ted Talk I recently viewed. Seriously. This is a game-changer. The speaker, Adam Leipzig, made the observation that at a twenty-five year college reunion few...
GIVING BLOOD BY LEONARD SWEET Study Helps Chapter 4: “Blood Stream: Scriptures” 1. One of my concerns for quite some time is that I strive to preach real “Christian” sermons. This may seem like an odd statement but I...
GIVING BLOOD BY LEONARD SWEET Study Helps Chapter 3: “Blood Word: Making Narraphors EPIC” 1. The following quote serves as a summary of this chapter: “Blood work is the practice of preaching. It is semiotic preaching gone EPIC...
GIVING BLOOD BY LEONARD SWEET Study Helps Chapter 2: “Narraphor—The Ars Combinatoria of Narrative and Metaphor” 1. When Sweet writes he often introduces new words to reframe truth. Just as when a high schooler must keep up with definitions...
“GIVING BLOOD” BY LEONARD SWEET Study Helps Chapter 1 by Randy Hartman SOAPBOX #1: “Preach the Word!” That was the charge given to me when I was ordained as an elder. Of course that admonition comes from 2 Timothy...