Wednesday
Mar102004
Preaching
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at 8:24AM
In a couple of hours I'll be preaching in front of this class, and one of the top homiletics professors in the world. I love preaching when it's motivated properly. It's hard to keep those motivations in view in this type of setting. I'll try to keep centered. I'm preaching on Daniel 4 on how God humbles the proud. The other person who preached on this passage related how God humbled him in preparing for this message. I wonder what God has in store for me... Update: The sermon went pretty well. It's intimidating preaching in front of the guy who wrote the book on preaching. But it's been a good experience. There has been a genius in the way we've learned. Rather than being lectured, we've been thrown in the deep end. Next year we'll learn more deductively. Haddon Robinson is an incredible man. He had the class over for dinner at his house tonight. I've been amazed at how real he is, how wise, how connected with what it takes to communicate today. I have a world of respect for him.
Reader Comments (4)
You mean you don't preach to a bunch of critics every Sunday?
Yeah I was reading last week in my devotions about King Neb.'s dream tree of success getting chopped down. It struck me that his pride was basically a form of insanity since apparently he suffered from what psychiatrists call boanthropy, some rare mental illness where the victim thinks and behaves like an ox. God put him out to pasture I guess. But the plagiarism of pride steals God's glory so that holding ourselves in high esteem we're no longer in touch with reality. Like we basically go spiritually insane. So Darryl bark like a dog or smile like a cheshire cat, but don't mooo like a cow in the pulpit. LOL
How did it go, really?
I seem to recall this review of one of my early sermons: "His preaching was like water to a drowning man." Hope yours went better!