on the walk

I got to preach this week. As always it was a great honor and I was glad to be able to preach through one of my favorite texts: 2 Corinthians 8 and 9.

In my final edit to get my sermon down to the right length, I had to remove an illustration that was important to me personally, so I thought I might share it in this forum. (As an aside, that final task of removing good material to focus a sermon and bring it to an appropriate length is my least favorite part of sermon writing.) It was valuable to me but ultimately it was not essential to the sermon.

Before I do that however, I want to draw your attention to a post that recently went up. Due to technical difficulties, gripping talk – four did not make it up at the right time. It is up now if you want to go back and check it out.

Now on to my illustration. Continue Reading »