Not tomorrow, but the Sunday after, I’ll preach at Christ Church, New Haven. I already feel slightly anxious since (a) I have an article due to be written between now and then, (b) I served Christ Church as the Utility Infielder Priest about fifteen years ago and some people may remember me from then, (c) that particular Sunday begins Christ Church’s year of Sesquicentennial celebrations.
The readings offer many fitting points of departure: Jeremiah 31:7-14, Psalm 84, Ephesians 1:3-6 and 15-19a, and Matthew 2:1-12. With such an embarrassment of riches, I’ll surely squander several hours just fishing for a particular text to adopt as the reference point for the whole sermon.
At Enoch’s instigation, I try to blog my sermon ideas as I prepare for sermons; if that doesn’t begin to amount to doubling the time I spend on the sermon, I’ll keep blog readers in touch with my deliberations. That’s more than I can promise relative to the article (on postmodernism and biblical interpretation, of course — a topic about which I’ve written enough now that I’ve passed the point at which my exposition came fluently, and now am in a freshly aridified desolation of finding something to say that I haven’t already written elsewhere (I have a horror of repeating myself).
Posted by AKMA at December 27, 2003 10:09 PM | TrackBacki'm rooting (and praying) for you as you blog your sermon ideas! Repeating yourself is not so terrible if you say it better this time 'round ;)
Posted by: enoch at December 28, 2003 01:24 AM