I must say I was surprised by the number of comments I got after preaching last Sunday. Ususally I get, "good sermon, Pastor" types of comments but the reactions I got were heartfelt. The best was one I receieved in the early service when she said God spoke to her about two things in her life. Those are the types of comments I like to hear. While I want a sermon to be easy to follow and at least enjoyable, what I most want is for God to say something to people through his word. Sometimes he does that inspite of us or with us. I pray that it might be the latter most often.
Tomorrow I preach again, This time on Mary. It is advent and I am taking a look at each of the characters. Basically I am preaching that Mary was 14, from a small insignificant little town in a land occupied by a foreign power and in the midst of her lack of understanding of all the angel explains to her, she still responds in faith. What makes this story even more amazing is the story which comes before it in Luke is the story of Zechariah, a priest with a tremendous spiritual heritage, who does not exhibit the same degree as the uneducated 14 year old girl. I close that sometimes in life God doesn't seem to make sense, like in both of these cases, yet how we respond makes all the difference. Last time I checked, there weren't two many people naming their kids Zechariah.
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