While home for the holidays, I preached a sermon at Plymouth Presbyterian Church, the church where I grew up and where my parents still attend. The sermon title is “That’s Great. Now What?”, and it’s about the Christian experience of being given revelation and left to sort out the details for ourselves. It was the Sunday after Christmas, and I chose Deuteronomy 34 and Mark 16:1-8 as my Bible passages. Through providence or luck (depending on how you reckon such things), the Deuteronomy passage was where a church Bible study had reached, so that worked out well for them.
My mother told me that I had to keep it to 7 minutes, and those who know me from the No Fluff tour know that I barely clear my throat in 7 minutes, so I was moving at a good clip. There’s also a couple of major gaffes where I was thinking a bit ahead of what I was speaking. Instead of editting around those, though, I decided to just leave it au natural. All in all, I’m rather proud of it.
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[...] Over the summer, I will be doing my student pastor placement at a local Methodist church. That’s going to be weird. I’m chalking it up under the heading of “Growth Experience”. When I preach (and I will have to preach), I’ll put the sermon up here (like “That’s Great. Now What?” (The seven minute sermon)). [...]