Chapel Service Video
December 15, 2007
This is the video for the Chapel Service. In this video, there is some great cello music in the beginning, the call to worship from a Shel Silverstein poem (3:07) and one of my favorite hymns, Canticle of the Turning (3:38). But if you’d like to skip to the sermon itself, you can find it [...]
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Preaching in Miller Chapel
October 11, 2007
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I’m still asking myself why I wanted to do this? But I signed up, and I even got one of the coveted Friday slots for preaching in Miller Chapel. Fridays are Communion Days and very popular - and I got one: Friday, December 14. On December 14, I will be preaching [...]
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“Partnering with God”
September 10, 2007
So I preached yesterday - and I think it went pretty well for not having preached in a long time. I went back and forth between a more formal manuscript style of preaching, and a very informal conversational style. I want to be able to do the conversational style of preaching well - so I’m [...]
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An Experiment in Collaborative Preaching
September 8, 2007
I have spent the better part of the past few days staring at Deuteronomy 30.15-20 and James 1.29-25 and trying to think of something to say about them. Like I mentioned a few days ago, I haven’t preached in over a year and so getting back into the rhythm is something I’ve found to be [...]
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Preaching
September 6, 2007
I have a problem - I forgot how to preach. It’s been over a year and a half since my Princeton preaching courses - and I haven’t preached since then. Besides, I don’t know how well they prepared me for the type of preaching I’d like to do. So. I have to preach this Sunday [...]
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“What is…” Begins Tomorrow
March 4, 2007
As I started to think about the topics I had hoped to cover in the “What is…” series - I began to realize that I may be taking on more than I can handle, but we will see. I have twelve “What is” topics that I want to focus on; a few of them include [...]
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The Divine Screw-Job
December 15, 2005
I know Jonny thinks it’s funny when people podcast their sermons (and I’m sure others do too), but…oh well. I am preaching again today, on Gen 32 (Jacob wrestling with God). The sermon is called The Divine Screw-Job (to see why, you’ll have to check out the footnote in the PDF): you can read the [...]
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A gospel question
October 3, 2005
I was in my preaching class the other day and we were talking about different models of preaching. We mentioned the container method, which basically assumes that there is one little golden “nugget” of truth in the Scripture that one is attempting to find and get from the “container” of the Word of God. We [...]
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The Reason for Preaching 201
September 21, 2005
They are working us this year to become preachers. We have an 8am plenary for quite of a few weeks, then a 1-2hr precept where we preach, and we also have a 5-7 week Preaching Workshop where we preach and get critiqued on delivery, body-language, enunciation, etc. I think they’re actually trying to get us [...]
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Debt-Cancellation in Wendell
March 22, 2004
I preached yesterday on Deuteronomy 15.1-11 and it went really well. I felt very comfortable up front, and I think I owe much of that to my newly-christened preaching stool. The sermon went really well and while I did use notes, I didn’t need them much. We talked about the practice of debt-cancellation in the [...]
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