What follows is a Facebook conversation between a group of young adults in NZ, Friday 11 March 2011, while watching TV coverage of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami (names changed, but their comments remain). Amy All these natural disasters lately are scaring me and making me feel uneasy! Ben the world’s coming to an end! [...]
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paul davison: the pike river remembrance service
I can’t remember the last time a sermon by a kiwi for kiwis made its way on to the national stage –but that’s what happened at the Pike River Remembrance service. Surely a daunting challenge and at the same time a unique opportunity. Daunting, because the sermon was broadcast live around New Zealand; the presence [...]
geoff new: the life and times of the preacher
In a sermon entitled, “The Real Point of Conflict Between Science and Religion”, Harry Emerson Fosdick said: What areas of human need science has met in my lifetime! When I was born, Edison was thirty-one years old; Sigmund Freud was twenty-two; Henry Ford was fifteen; Charles Steinmetz, thirteen; Madam Curie, eleven; Orville Wright, seven; Marconi, [...]
sean du toit: is the bible always necessary?
I love expository preaching. It’s what I feel most comfortable doing. I am not competent enough in other ways of preaching, although at times I do try – always repenting afterwards. I don’t trust my organizational and creative skills for fear that I may supply the message with my particular selection and at worse prove unfaithful [...]
lynne baab: personality type, spiritual gifts & preaching
What do you enjoy most about the preaching process? My favorite part is the preparation. I love reading and rereading the passage, trying to figure out what God might be calling me to focus on and identifying the thought blocks that might shape the sermon. I love figuring out the best way to illustrate the [...]
melissa powell: stretch it wider
I love language. It fascinates me, so much so that I have studied four languages other than my own at a tertiary level. As a preacher, I approach the task of sermon writing with a mixture of excitement and fear, because it gives me the opportunity to play with language, particularly with words; to engage [...]
