Sermon Illustrations
If you're looking for some sermon ideas, here's my sermon archives on our church website (which is about to be overhauled completely). I'm still at the National Outreach Convention in San Diego. If you have never attended NOC, you need to put it on
Community
Debbie and I leave tomorrow for San Diego and Outreach, Inc.'s National Outreach Convention 2007 (NOC07). I'll be leading the workshop, Small Church, Big Impact: Creating Missional Partnerships in Your Community on Friday afternoon. I'm also the facilitator for the Small Church Outreach affinity
Congregation
Last week I posted my thoughts about Preaching from the Lectionary. I ended that article by saying that not only did this Baptist preacher take his text from the revised common lectionary, but I also preached in a robe. Well, the robe-thing apparently intrigued a couple of readers who asked
Sermons
I just posted When Jesus Invites Himself To Your House for Dinner, my sermon for this Sunday, November4, 2007. It's taken from the lectionary gospel reading, Luke 19:1-10, the story of Zacchaeus. It's a great story, and I learned something about sycamore trees I didn&
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When Jesus Invites Himself To Your House for Dinner (mp3) Luke 19:1-10 1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being
Congregation
I am a Baptist. Each Sunday I preach from the texts of the revised common lectionary. What's wrong with this picture? These are not contradictory statements, believe it or not. Although I come from a free church, and not a liturgical tradition, I choose my preaching text each
Sermons
I've just posted my sermon for Sunday, October 28, 2007. The title is Faith Puts You in Your Place and the lectionary text is the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector from Luke 18:9-14. Have a great day Sunday!
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Faith Puts You In Your Place (mp3) Luke 18:9-14 The Great Dizzy Dean When I was a kid, which was a long time ago, our little TV set picked up three channels -- NBC, CBS, and ABC. On Saturday afternoon, in addition to the Army's Big Picture,
Sermons
I just posted my sermon for Sunday, October 21, 2007 -- Faithful Prayer for Justice. I'm not wild about the title, but found this entire passage of Luke 18:1-10 fascinating. It's the story of the persistent widow who is granted justice by the unjust judge
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Faithful Prayer for Justice (mp3) Text: Luke 18:1-8 The Parable of the Persistent Widow 1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared
Congregation
Recently some poor soul googled "sermon - I'm not doing anything wrong" and landed on my blog. I am pretty sure they didn't find a sermon by me titled, "I'm not doing anything wrong" but maybe they found something helpful.
Sermons
I'm not preaching this week because we have a missions speaker this Sunday. But, here's a sermon I enjoyed preaching last year on the story of "blind Bartimaeus." It's titled, Jesus, Help! from Mark 10:46-52.