I guess I should be paying more attention to the big game this evening. Or at least the ads.
It seems that there is not just entertainment value in the commercial fare, but there is a sermon or two to be found in those messages. At least so thinks one pastor.
Pastor Ken Diehm of First United Methodist Church in Grapevine is asking people in his church to text him during the Super Bowl tonight when they see commercials with messages that they’d like him to include in his sermon next Sunday morning. This evidently is a practice that he has engaged in for several years.
“I find the Super Bowl commercials are creative, entertaining, funny and most have a message of some kind. I enjoy having the opportunity to reflect on the messages of certain Super Bowl commercials in the context of the Christian faith,” he said.
For three Sundays in January, we discussed the authority and power of Scripture from Psalm 119 and 2 Timothy 3:16-17. What Scripture consistently reaffirms is that it is sufficient for all that men need. We don’t need to exegete commercials written by ungodly men to understand life in Christ; we do need to immerse ourselves in the Word of God so that it lives richly within us.
We need more Scripture, not less. We need less television, not more.
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