Idol Minds - Now

Waiting, the preacher argues, is not an interruption of the Christian life but its shape: and the demand to have everything immediately is the idol under examination. He opens with a quiz about hold music, long lines and standstill traffic, then works through Stanford's marshmallow study, a list of scriptural figures who waited decades, and a Chinese bamboo that grows an inch in five years and ninety feet in the ninety days after. Four marks of Christian waiting follow, closing on Psalm 130's watchman and an invitation.