posts from another era
Last night at Berwyn, the Women's Guild put on a Christmas Musicale; a Lessons and Carols service. Scripture and reflective readings were read. I was told I had 10 minutes for a sermon. That's normally a warm up for me-- or at least, I'd like it to be. This one came in at 11:45.
And the volume goes up to 11 also.
Haven't gotten out too much lately, but here's some more from early November.
[The language may be offensive to some.]
Stewart puts it in layman's terms.
Colbert, well, Colbert is just bleeping gold.
But these choices do not make matters whole-- the gospel does. Otherwise put, freedom is not an interior human capacity which needs but a homilectical push from time to time in order to function. Freedom is a consequence of the grace of God. Human freedom is therefore not a reservoir of capacity the preacher seeks to shape into a "decision for Christ" by means of a sermon. Human freedom is the capacity for choice that is generated by the gospel of Jesus Christ as proclaimed.
Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 83.
He wants to marry her.
She thinks he's funny.
He has a girl's name.
She does too.
June 20th, 2009, she'll have his name.
He'll still have his name.
