Sometimes Christianity can become more like empiricism than the supernatural revelation it is. And it is just as easy to begin to see the presentation of messages as good self-help material. Does preaching have to be pragmatic? Well, first, I think so, yes. But it is always more than that. It is supernatural.

A church can lose its moorings in the power of miracle if things have to be logical and always make sense. And on the other hand if everything has to be mystical and not make rational sense you end up with a scary blend of emotion and superstition.

I have decided I need to revisit the supernatural revelation side of my experience a little more. I have started my quest by preparing a message on, of all things, angels. You don’t get much more other-worldly than angels. I read Billy Graham’s book on the title, and I went through most of the 300 references to angels in the Bible. And found a new vision of reality I left out. I believe angels are part of our present tense walk with God. I don’t understand totally how or it wouldn’t be supernatural. They are, after, all beyond nature.

I feel a bit like I did when I wrote a book on dreams and found out two things. First over a lifetime a person will have between 100,000 and 120,000 dreams. Joseph had almost two handfuls of dreams that were from God as revelation as best we can tell. I also found that about 1/3 of all major biblical events were introduced through dreams. Now I have thought about that one over the years for sure. I have had two dreams that I think were revelatory. One of them I had repeatedly for several years. I was preaching in my church and kept being told I was in the wrong place. It was almost haunting but not in an evil way. The day I resigned that church after 19 years the dreams stopped and have never returned.

I haven’t seen my personally assigned angel that I know of yet. I have had some situations that I was suspicious of some mighty spiritual intervention that was different from the Holy Spirit’s moving. But I don’t feel safe enough with you to tell you about them. I suspect when my time is up and I stand before Jesus one of the ceremonies will be to introduce me to my personal angel. I will have to apologize.

I am attaching with this brief memo here the outline notes for my message on angels. Enjoy them and take the time to consider that the world just might be far less mundane than we think.

Angels Message Outline.