Thursday, August 22, 2013

Midnight sermons

If your like me an "older" man you probably get up during the night at least once every night. Thankfully once is my usual but sometimes I have a difficult time going back to sleep. Often while lying in bed wondering if I will ever fall back asleep I get sermon ideas. (If you get sermons ideas in bed you might want to keep a pen and paper handy like I did). Before retiring from preaching these ideas were very welcome and helpful to my expectation of presenting two sermons most every week for the past 25 or so years while also working a secular job. Now not so much, but I always have enjoyed sermon writing. After all to me that's the fun part of the whole sermon thing creating it, the presentation was sometimes a little stressful and the trite compliments received afterwards weren't much either. I just liked the whole writing part of it maybe you do too. It would be an interesting poll for the preacher types, What is your favorite part of the sermon process. Anyway back to the point, now that I am retired what am I to do with these "midnight sermons"? You guessed it, post it to my blog. (Next post......my latest midnight sermon.....The Process) Thanks, Larry