The following sermon comes from a series of devotionals centered around the game of Golf. This is not a full sermon for the pulpit.

It's been said wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from messing up. So I guess that means the older the wiser is another way of saying it's always easier to tell others the right way to do things after you've done them the wrong way for a long time. Maybe that's why so many awful players become such good coaches.

Lee Trevino, however, isn't convinced. He has said he'd get a coach if he could find one who could beat him. When I was in seminary, it was a cliche to say there's something at least a little strange about professors who've never been pastors telling prospective pastors how to do what they've never done. I think of Dwight L. Moody who was…