Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Today, Alaska, Sunday, Minneapolis!
Closer to home, this Sunday I will be giving the sermon at First Covenant Church here in Minneapolis. The church is located at 810 S. 7th St., right by the Metrodome, and it should be an excellent event, with a great choir. I was there for the service this past Sunday, and it will be hard to be as inspiring and thought-provoking as Dan Collison (the senior minister) was last week. I'll give it a shot, though!
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You have aged...or is the picture next to your article someone else?
Lay preaching has its pitfalls. Morgan, a late lawyer friend was an ardent lay preacher. One of his failings was using a ten dollar word when a two bit word would suit.
One summer's evening he preached at a small Baptist church in a working class neighborhood. His theme: Love, neighborliness, and the loss of community due to the advent of A/C, TV, clothes dryers and other "modren" conveniences. These instruments of good and evil had led men to cease sitting on front stoops in U shirts after work drinking cold "beverages" and telling stories, and to women not gossiping as formerly when they hung clothes to dry on back yard lines.
He railed and complained about our developing isolation from one another, and offered this suggestion to the dismay of the congregation and the despair of his long suffering wife:
"What this city, nay America, really the whole world needs is...(pause for effect)...more intercourse over the back fence!"
After a few seconds of silence, Mrs. Preacher- Ad Hoc was heard to sigh, and not for the first or last time, "Oh, Morgan!"
Good luck with your sermon, and publish it if you dare.
Lay preaching has its pitfalls. Morgan, a late lawyer friend was an ardent lay preacher. One of his failings was using a ten dollar word when a two bit word would suit.
One summer's evening he preached at a small Baptist church in a working class neighborhood. His theme: Love, neighborliness, and the loss of community due to the advent of A/C, TV, clothes dryers and other "modren" conveniences. These instruments of good and evil had led men to cease sitting on front stoops in U shirts after work drinking cold "beverages" and telling stories, and to women not gossiping as formerly when they hung clothes to dry on back yard lines.
He railed and complained about our developing isolation from one another, and offered this suggestion to the dismay of the congregation and the despair of his long suffering wife:
"What this city, nay America, really the whole world needs is...(pause for effect)...more intercourse over the back fence!"
After a few seconds of silence, Mrs. Preacher- Ad Hoc was heard to sigh, and not for the first or last time, "Oh, Morgan!"
Good luck with your sermon, and publish it if you dare.
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: 11:39 PM
Ha! I'm going to use that story.
Yeah, lay preaching is risky... it's something that uses our skill set as lawyers, though. I have published some of my other sermons here on the blog (like this one, which mentions two key Baylor profs, Randall O'Brien and Hulitt Gloer).
Yeah, lay preaching is risky... it's something that uses our skill set as lawyers, though. I have published some of my other sermons here on the blog (like this one, which mentions two key Baylor profs, Randall O'Brien and Hulitt Gloer).
Yes, I am looking forward to attending the trial, and to perhaps meeting you.
All the best,
ELO'B
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All the best,
ELO'B
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