Hello Phil,
Thanks for being a pastor wwho's willing ti to teach sheep how to
study!  Radio and tv ministries can be a blessing, but they should
never take the place of personal study.
I'm sorry I forgot to write and wish you and  Sandy lots more happy
years.  You both are a blessing and a role model for the rest of us.
Thanks for sharing.
Donna

On 1/13/15, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> John,
>
> I agree with what you said concerning topical preaching for the most part
> but I'll tell you what I did about a year ago.  I have probably 10 or 15,
> naw, maybe more than that, notebooks filled with sermons.  I went through
> several of them and saw each one was topical.  They were mostly the sermons
> I preached in revival meetings on the road.  I carried several 2 and 3 inch
> thick Braille notebooks out to our large trash barrel, and dumped them in.
> The notebooks I keep were those where I taught, or preach, in a series; each
> lesson building on the one before.  Topics are ok but I always fall back to
> that series style of expository style of teaching for some reason.  I think
> it build spiritual characters brick by brick more than the topic type.  A
> few more years ago, I gathered up all 1200 of cassettes in my Christian tape
> library and set them all outside by our trash.  My son came in that day and
> asked what all those tapes were doing outside.  I said, "I don't need them
> any longer and I am throwing them away."  He asked if he could have them and
> I said yes.  He put them in his garage but I don't think he ever listened to
> any of them.  Now, before someone says I'm proud or haughty, and a know it
> all, and that's why I threw the Braille notebooks filled with my sermons,
> along with all my tape collections away, let me tell you all why I did it.
> I got to the  place in my life that I wanted God to tell me what He wanted
> me to know and if He couldn't show me, then I was going to be a spiritual
> midget for the rest of my life.  There's hardly a day goes by I don't look
> up a word or phrase in my Online Bible, and comparing Scripture with
> Scripture, work on figuring out what the Lord is saying to me about my life.
>  That's why I tossed all the material away.  In another message, I'm going
> to explain this a little more by telling everybody what I heard being taught
> by a well known radio preacher here in Colorado.  If I don't forget, that
> is, haha.
>
> Phil.
> Living His Name
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