NEH125 - Stephen Draws on the Words of Jesus and Nehemiah 9 to Absolutely Drop the Hammer on the Religious Leaders of His Day
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Sometimes when I was growing up and my dad was preaching sermons because he was a pastor, I think we've talked about that before. |
| 0:26.0 | It was pretty much a great experience. I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were great parents, still are great parents. I mean, you hear, I'm saying all this because you hear people say that the pastor's kids are all turds and I don't think |
| 0:36.6 | we were super turds I think we were normal like sort of turdish but also like kind of |
| 0:41.4 | normal and kind of good kids. |
| 0:43.0 | I don't know and I mean growing up in a church was pretty cool as a community |
| 0:47.7 | people treated us well there were ups and downs to all of that but I mean generally |
| 0:51.1 | speaking pretty good experience being a |
| 0:53.5 | pastor's kid even if eventually I had to go through a bit of a process of |
| 0:56.8 | making this thing my own and even if maybe I'm still kind of going through that |
| 1:00.8 | process now I don't have any gripes about my upbringing. My parents were |
| 1:04.5 | wonderful, they are wonderful. Okay, all that said. Every now and then, dad would give a sermon and |
| 1:10.4 | maybe there was a little more pressure at that point in his career where it's kind of an expectation like, hey, get us out of here on time. |
| 1:17.0 | You're on thin ice here, buddy, because that, I mean that happens in churches. |
| 1:20.0 | It's like anywhere else you answer to people sometimes they're real happy with you |
| 1:23.2 | sometimes they're maybe not quite as happy with you and maybe at times my dad |
| 1:26.6 | looking back on it felt a little pressure to really try to get everything done by |
| 1:31.5 | the done time on a Sunday morning and I remember a few |
| 1:35.1 | sermons where he would be developing a really complex thing big ideas |
| 1:40.8 | sweeping overview of this whole thread that runs through the whole |
| 1:45.1 | Bible. Dad was very very good and my dad is brilliant. He's just a Bible |
| 1:51.8 | genius. He's phenomenally gifted excellent communicator. He'd go big. He would develop these big ideas in his sermons. |
| 1:59.0 | And I can remember a few where he would get into the big idea and we're not even into the meat of the immediate |
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