Ed from Stuckeyville

One of my all time favorite T.V. shows was "Ed". Ed was on NBC from 2000-2004. The beauty of Ed was that it was simple. It was about a guy that once lived in New York City as a big time lawyer, but gave that all up to move back to his hometown, Stuckeyville, and pursue his High School dream girl. The show was all about the characters. As they developed each character, you would being to care about them. The show didn't have any forensic experts or huge special effects. Nothing like that at all. It was just a simple show and I loved it.

I try to translate the concept of simple when I am preparing a Sunday morning talk. I am not meaning simple as in no video or skit or technology. I am talking about simple in that I try not to cloud the point God is laying on my heart with all this extra stuff. The first few times I would give a talk, I thought I had to show how much I knew. I would talk about things that maybe I had read somewhere or heard somewhere, but that where hard to explain or that I might not have completely understood myself. It would just confuse the points I felt God wanted me to make. But, the more simple I made it, the more easily I could present it. And, like the T.V. show Ed, the more people could actually walk away with.