Have you ever been given bad advice? Worse yet, have you not realized that the advice which you were given was bad until after you had acted upon it? Well let me tell you about the worst advice that I was ever given, albeit indirectly, and from a preacher, to boot!
Back around the turn of the century (there’s a phrase which has caught me by surprise a good number of times in the last few years), I was a band director at a rather small school. My son was just a toddler, and my wife and I attended church regularly with the local Baptist congregation. We had an interim pastor for several months, and I thought he was a very good preacher and a great guy all around. Fast forward to a sermon he gave from the book of Jonah.
