Sermons

"You ready?", my uncle's call thirty minutes before church to see if I would take his place in the pulpit. I was rarely ready, I'm not a studious person but I know how to study, particularly the Bible, so I always said yes. Studying is simple if you have a questioning mind and I'm always wondering, it's why I used the King James version in my Bible studies, it raises so many questions. Now there are ways to search the Bible on the internet, I used BibleGateway.com for my little sermon. For a decent sermon I would also have used a Strong's Concordance. Not only is it an index of every word in the Bible like BibleGateway.com but Greek and Hebrew meanings of words can easily be found and researched to their roots. Example, the word fearful from my sermon comes from the Greek root word dread and is used only three times in the Bible, Matthew 8:26, Mark 4:40 and Revelation 21:8. Interestingly enough, the first two times it’s used it is in conjunction with those who were fearful as a lack of faith so it seems to be speaking of a very specific kind of fear..


Future posts will divulge further secrets of writing decent 45-60 minute sermons in less than an hour, which in some circles can earn a decent amount of coin