Most of the preachers at the Union Gospel Mission are talented and passionate and are empathetic (or, try to be) with the congregants. A few, like Jimmy Roughton and Brett Ingalls, compose exquisite sermons, that have an arc leading to a point, and, in Roughton's case and in the case of those from Heart Talk ministry, love is expressed for guys they are speaking to, explicitly. But that leaves more than a few who clearly don't work very hard, if at all, at coming up with a sermon. Often, what they have to say is blueplate fundamentalism, that wanders and can have no point, is mostly accusatory, and can focus quite a lot on the torment of hell. For them, the finger wagging from an essay Mike Lux wrote is somewhat appropriate. This from Mike Lux's essay " How Do Christians Become Conservative? " in the Huffington Post [with emphases, mine]: Conservative Christians' primary argument regarding Jesus and politics is that all he cared about...
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