AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Sermon Prospects

At BloggerCon, several people urged me to blog out my sermon preparations more often. Part of me resists that; I like the idea that congregants are hearing a sermon for the first time (and I know some people from St. Luke’s stop by sometimes — and of course Margaret reads this blog vigilantly). I also don’t want to bore people (though I guess that the people in my session in Cambridge provide a sample of not-likely-to-be-bored readers). Partly, too, I simply have a long work habit of keeping sermon prep to myself.

But I’ll see how it goes this week. I’m preaching Sunday at St. Luke’s, where the congregation is struggling for a direction, and no one knows what new conflict lies around the corner. The lectionary readings include Amos 5:6-7, 10-15; Psalm 90 (though I can’t be sure we’ll use more than the verses 1-8 and 12); Hebrews 3:1-6; and Mark 10:17-31. I’ll let them roll around in my head overnight, and tomorrow we can see what has begun growing there.