TWO THIEVES, A MIDDLEMAN, AND SOME PEOPLE AT THE WAFFLE CAFÉ ________________________________________________________________ A Play in Two Acts by a blogger whose blog got a little out of hand Copyright © 2016                             …

In his December 16, 1860 sermon, A Blow at Self-Righteousness, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers,” noted that, Tens of thousands of sermons have been preached against self-righteousness, and yet it is as necessary to turn the great guns of the law against its walls to-day…

I grew up in a rural Southern Baptist church where, at the end of the service, you were invited to “come forward” and “be saved.”  As a child, I did not think it strange to speak of someone in our church or community as ‘saved’…