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Your sermons notes are right on target! Thanks so much Bill. Blessings and Shalom! Jorge
================== Bill, as I wrote on the survey last year, I really enjoy the “Starter.” I use it to begin my sermon preparation for the week and each of the “Starter’s” parts are important to the overall process. I ruminate on the text, think about the word definitions, the illustrations come from life experience during this process. The “Starter” does not do the sermon for me, but gives me the tools. Do not change a thing! ================== Bill, thanks for this sermon ... I needed it TODAY!!!!! I got the message! --Ginny ========================
Pastor Bill, ==================== My current plan is to base the sermon on my experiences at School of Mission this past week. Your site seemed like a good place to start. Thanks for any help you can give me. You were a very inspirational, well versed and well prepared teacher. Thanks for giving of your time--you are a natural teacher. . . (Ann Rushes) ==================== Thank you so much for the warm welcome! I have already begun spreading the word around Saint Paul, and have shared your listserv with several people who will be beginning in ministry this year. I want to tell you once again how grateful I am to you for offering this service. Please know that it is greatly appreciated. ===================== Bill, You continue to produce good resources. May God bless your efforts. (Bishop) Fritz Mutti Bill, I have really appreciated receiving your Sermon Starters. I do not know if you were aware that I have been a fill in Lay Speaker for Natoma & Pleasant Plains since the first of February. I had only given one Sermon before that. Although it seems I deviate from your outline sometimes it stimulates the thought process, and helps me to picture how to outline my sermons. I just wanted to let you know your efforts aren't in vain. BMC This
was excellent!!! I came up with a thousand illustrations just
reading your outline. I could have put together several good
sermons of my own in very little time just from the material in the
outline. How do I get on your mailing list again? ============ Pastor Bill, =================== Pastor Bill, |
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“THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU,” vs. 3
John 17: 1 – 10 Genesis 2: 8 -9, 3: 22 – 24 Capital Verse : “I. . .kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost.”
Pre-Itch* Living the damaged life
The Itch A. Last Sunday in Eastertide; next Sun. is T R I N I T y. Vs. 1B, “Father, the time has come.” For what? 1. Vs. 4, Jesus seems to think his mission is over. Ready to GO HOME?
2 But, wait a minute.
2. The Human Problem (Genesis readings) Living “On Vacation,” or Living “At Home?” Two Trees: The damaged seek INDEPENDENCE Quote: The Shack,. pp. 123**
The Scratch 1. Jesus as the demonstration Cow, Tree, Mom Nature
2. Vs. 6A, Jesus says, “I have revealed “HOME” (God) to those on “VACATION” (out of the world).
Ah Ha 1. Vs. 6B, “and they OBEYED your WORD.”
2. Can we see what Jesus is up now?
Good News 1. The choice is ours! Damaged goods (on Vacation)?
Or L I V E at H O M E with J E S U S!
2. Vs. 12 A, Jesus tells us how!
Surrender our I N D E P E N D E N C E !
3. The Key word is OBEY or SURRENDER
COME ON HOME! Are you ready? Sing: “Till there was you” (Words on the back)
TILL THERE WAS YOU (Words and Tune are in the public domain) Sing it to Jesus!
There were bells on the hill, but I never heard them ringing, No, I never heard them at all, till there was you. There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No, I never saw them at all, till there was you.
And there was music, and there were wonderful roses, they tell me; In sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and dew. There was love all around, but I never heard it singing, No, I never heard it at all, till there was you.
Thank you, Jesus!
* This sermonic progression is described in the following resource: Lowry, Eugene L., The Homilectical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
** Young, William P. The Shack, Los Angeles:windblown, 2007.) |
