I can get stirred up sometimes on Saturday nights, in anticipation of preaching on Sunday mornings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
A couple of things in particular get me excited:<\/p>\n\n\n
#1 – Passing along whatever I have been learning recently about the Bible – which is an endlessly fascinating book. I know some pastors like to recycle old sermons whenever they are in a new context, but I would much rather be working with fresh insights. There’s always more to discover.<\/p>\n\n\n
#2 – The possibility that I could play a role in someone else’s “lightbulb moment”. You know those moments – while reading a book, or hearing a friend’s perspective, or listening to a deep sermon – when an idea grabs you and you just know in that moment that somehow your view of reality has just shifted towards greater clarity? Sometimes it’s a novel framework rushing at you out of left field but sometimes it’s a familiar concept that grabs your imagination in a new way. Either one is welcome on a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n
How exciting it is to stand and deliver a message which, on any particular Sunday morning, the Spirit may use to propel a lost soul into the Kingdom or to drive a saved soul into new depths of Truth!<\/p>\n\n\n
There is nothing like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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