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The Beasts, Big and Little |
Revelation chapter 13 |
I am a big believer in the power of metaphor in preaching, whatever the sermon. Over the years, I have contended that every sermon needs a metaphor at its core. As a result, I tend, I suspect, to be attracted to texts that have metaphors in them. The real challenge, then, is to see if I can take a commonplace, or even an overused or hackneyed metaphor, and turn it into one with some freshness and originality. The bottom line, for me, is that sermons that have strong, new metaphors at their core are virtually impossible to forget, or even to misunderstand. This a sermon based on the "beast" metaphor, the Leviathan and Behemoth, of Revelation 13. I have taken the big beasts and turned them into little beasts. See if you think it works in this sermon. |