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Category: sermon

  • that moment when your computer needs to update and you need to use it… urgently

    I usually prepare my sermons in the first half of a week. That gives me space to reflect on it and adjust things. I usually wait until the Sunday morning to do any final adjustments before saving it as a PDF and sending it to my tablet computer from which I like to preach. This…

  • Fed up with sermons

    Yes, really. I am fed up with sermons. That’s probably not what a Regional Minister ought to have as the title for one of his bloggages. But I am honestly fed up with sermons. Not, I hasten to add, in the usual sense of that phrase! (Put the stones down…) I am fed up with…

  • yes we’re better together

    In a matter of days the people of Scotland will be voting in a referendum to decide whether or not they want to remain part of the United Kingdom. I have my own view on this but I don’t get a vote (as a sasanach) so this bloggage is not about my opinion. It’s about…

  • the inevitability of disappointing church services?

    I’m currently searching for inspiration for our Mothering Sunday service this week. I find that this is one of the most difficult services of the year to prepare. That’s not because the subject is difficult. Neither is it because I don’t have any ideas. It’s because it is one of the services where different people…

  • news

    I think I may have mentioned before that I used to love the start of the new term at school. It was the newness of everything that I loved, particularly at the start of a new school year but also at the start of the term. I used to love having new pens and other…

  • the failing of fear

    Yesterday evening a Minister friend of mine posted on Facebook about how poor their sermon had been. I felt immediate empathy for them because sermons are quite personal things, and if they are not as good as we would like there is a sense that we have let God down, the church down and ourselves…

  • sneaky shopping

    I have been undercover today. I have been a ‘mystery shopper’. I can’t say where or for what, but it was quite a strange experience. I had to pretend that I was interested in a particular purchase and then ask the assistant to help me with it. (On the whole the assistant did well, but…

  • now that’s what I call amusing 12

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  • recycling sermons

    Unless or until I ever get my hands on a Tablet PC I will continue to print out my sermons on paper each week. And after each Sunday I empty the ring binder I use, putting the sermons into my paper recycling bin. (That’s what the heading refers to, I’m not talking about reusing old…

  • thundersermons??

    I am prepared for my sermon preparation today. Yesterday I bought a new jar of ground coffee. My coffee machine is warming up. My Bible is open and ready. The books I will use to help me are within reach. My procrastination levels have diminished (although this bloggerel may disqualify that claim). As soon as…