“Sermonizing”

Writing a sermon is kind of like preparing for Thanksgiving Dinner…you read a bunch of recipes, you throw a bunch of ingredients together, and pray the turkey isn’t still frozen!

Sometimes, as the young people say, “you’re cooking” and it all comes together beautifully, the way you might make a dish from memory, passed down from the generations before you. You know, the recipe you can’t really give to anyone because you don’t measure, you just prepare by taste.

 Other times, the process is painfully slow, and you wonder if you’ve missed a step or confused your recipes like Rachel’s attempt at an English Trifle (Friends Season 6 Episode 9) where the book’s pages get stuck together and she mixes the trifle recipe with shepherd’s pie.  Her dish has lady fingers layered with beef and sautéed onions and peas.

After almost five years of sermons at New Providence, I bet everyone can tell when I’m cooking like Grandma or baking like Rachel. 

Most days I’m thankful for the process, and the Holy Spirit coming through for me! And all of you, for listening.