Surely The Lord is in this Place: A sermon I wish I had written

My good friend Jeanette has done it again with a blockbuster sermon that I wish I had written or been present to hear. Preachers get a lot out of preparing a sermon and it's a shame that much of that work may just go out into the air and not be grasped.

However, I still believe in preaching and value it over 'dialogues', 'hi-tech' displays etc. which entertain more than they inform. Preachers are not entertainers so it can be hard to understand, in our western world which is 'entertaining itself to death', a phrase based on the educator's Neil Postman's graphic book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, that preachers are not sent for that purpose.

Someone has said that only recently have Christians had to ask themselves the question for the first time in history, how much time they should spend entertaining themselves!

Anyway, enough of my ranting for Jeanette's sermon is spiritually entertaining and refreshing.

An Inspired Sermon On The Power Of Praise

Recently a gifted friend of mine sent me a sermon she had written in a few days before delivering it on a Sunday in January 2012.

The sermon is about praise and the power of praise to rout the enemy of our souls. It begs to be read! It touches on the theme of God's glory! Read it HERE.