NOW THAT'S A PARADOX (10 OF 31)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:7-18
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Now That's a Paradox (10 of 31)
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4. We're going to finish this chapter tonight. We're marching through the Book of 2nd Corinthians, going verse by verse and, hopefully, a wonderful time as we do that. This series is called Turning Trials to Triumphs.
Well, I was just going to ask tonight, how many in here, when you were in school, liked English class? How many liked English class? Okay. A few hands liked English class. My mom was an English teacher, and my dad was a stickler for English grammar, and my brother was an English major in college, and so we had English grammar kind of pounded in our heads as kids. And in English class they used to - I don't know if they do this anymore - they used to teach grammar. The way you hear people talk today, I guess that class they don't have it any more because they don't teach that. They also don't teach anymore - this is just kind of an aside - they don't teach cursive writing, I'm told, anymore which is amazing to me. I still remember doing all my letters in 3rd grade. They don't teach that, and so kids don't know how to write in cursive.
Well, in English class you learned cursive, and you also learned about words, and you learn about literary devices. And we learn about how you can use things in literature and in writing to enhance your writing. You know, alliteration is a literary device. And for years, sermons were all alliterated. The pastor of yesterday at Bellevue Baptist Church, R. G. Lee, he was the master of alliteration. Everything was alliterated. But we've kind of gotten away from alliteration. Alliteration is a literary device.
Another literary device is a thing called a paradox. A paradox, what is that? Well, I have the definition on the screen here. A paradox is a statement or a proposition that seems self-contradictory, incongruous, or logically unacceptable, but when it is ...
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4. We're going to finish this chapter tonight. We're marching through the Book of 2nd Corinthians, going verse by verse and, hopefully, a wonderful time as we do that. This series is called Turning Trials to Triumphs.
Well, I was just going to ask tonight, how many in here, when you were in school, liked English class? How many liked English class? Okay. A few hands liked English class. My mom was an English teacher, and my dad was a stickler for English grammar, and my brother was an English major in college, and so we had English grammar kind of pounded in our heads as kids. And in English class they used to - I don't know if they do this anymore - they used to teach grammar. The way you hear people talk today, I guess that class they don't have it any more because they don't teach that. They also don't teach anymore - this is just kind of an aside - they don't teach cursive writing, I'm told, anymore which is amazing to me. I still remember doing all my letters in 3rd grade. They don't teach that, and so kids don't know how to write in cursive.
Well, in English class you learned cursive, and you also learned about words, and you learn about literary devices. And we learn about how you can use things in literature and in writing to enhance your writing. You know, alliteration is a literary device. And for years, sermons were all alliterated. The pastor of yesterday at Bellevue Baptist Church, R. G. Lee, he was the master of alliteration. Everything was alliterated. But we've kind of gotten away from alliteration. Alliteration is a literary device.
Another literary device is a thing called a paradox. A paradox, what is that? Well, I have the definition on the screen here. A paradox is a statement or a proposition that seems self-contradictory, incongruous, or logically unacceptable, but when it is ...
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