It's been a good week-end, with our attention shifting from home repairs to church work. I usually have a rough draft of my sermon written by Friday, but not last week. So my main writing task on Saturday was sermon writing. Happily, by the time I sat down to write, I had already plotted it out in my head.You can read my sermon in yesterday's blog post at my theology blog.It's always interesting to see how the sermon changes from rough draft to preaching manuscript to actual delivery. For example, I will occasionally reference the youth sermon, but since I don't write it in advance, it won't be in the written versions.We're a small church, and occasionally in the summer, when families are on vacation, we have no youth, so there's no youth sermon. When I announced that there would be no youth sermon, I asked the congregation to think about what had brought them joy in their own youth. I referenced a popsicle in the park event that one of the members had made the subject of a Facebook…
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