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The Patient Builder |
The Book of Ezra |
One always struggles with the personal dimension in a sermon. I have long since rejected the old advice given to preachers to keep personal things out of the sermon, something that my dad, the preacher, very much believed and practiced. Not me. I am of the firm belief that people who come to hear us and decide whether to believe us or not want to know about our own personal treks through life. We don't major in that, but we leave those elements out to the detriment of our sermons. There is personal stuff in this sermon, not just of a story here and there, but of the life we all have to work at "building." There is the theme of the sermon. Ezra the Builder. And what he needed more than anything was patience to get the building done. Me? Absolutely, patience was always the problem. But here is my own call for patience with the lives and the churches we all are called to build. Share the sermon with me and see what you think. |