It’s the Sunday of Peace, except for my to-do list and calendar, which are not comporting themselves very peacefully. Yours? Regardless, onward we go to proclaim the good news. Revised Common Lectionary preachers can find a helpful post here, and Narrative Lectionary preachers, here. Maybe it’s cantata Sunday, or children’s pageant Sunday, or sermon-series-that-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time Sunday… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: here comes Advent!
Ready or not, here it comes! The first Sunday of advent is upon us. Whether you are following the RCL with its apocalyptic Advent 1, the Narrarive Lectionary with the lesser-known Habakkuk who somehow manages to speak right into current events, or a series of your own making, now is the time! Bring your ideas,… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: What kind of king?
On this final Sunday of the Christian year, before we begin again in Advent, will you be preaching the Reign of Christ with the RCL texts? Will you be asking: What kind of king? Will you be highlighting the king who washes the feet of his friends, the king who would more likely be found… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: The End, almost…
(Photo by Terri Pilarski) Two more Sundays and we’ve concluded another long season after the Pentecost. The readings, if one is following the RCL, are sounding doom and gloom and pointing to the end of all things. The world around many of us kind of looks that way too: wild fires, snowstorms, and… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Ya Got a Sermon?
This ostrich seems to be asking, “Ya got a sermon in there?” (or, ahem, maybe I’m just feeling a little pressed to get mine written). Revised Common Lectionary preachers are considering scribes and widows, widows and prophets, orphans and widows. Check out a post and discussion here. Narrative Lectionary preachers are pondering the prophet Micah’s… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Wisdom and Longing
Over in the Facebook Group, there was some discussion about the tasks we manage to get done when there is a sermon to be written. Procrastination, oddly enough, seems to result in good productivity in other areas of life. What about you this week? Have you been putting off writing – or is your sermon… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Called to…
(Photo by Terri Pilarski, Deception Pass, Washington State) I am not preaching this Sunday, so I am a little less invested in the texts than I might be otherwise….however, I know that I always struggle as we come to the end of the long season after Pentecost. I follow the RCL and we are heading… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Imperfect Edition
Hello, fellow imperfect preachers. Last week’s sermon was a mess? This week’s isn’t looking much better? It’s always possible to find at least *one* thing you could have said more clearly or delivered more energetically? Then, you’ve come to the right place! It’s the RevGalBlogPals 11th Hour Preacher Party! Bring your questions, ideas, beginnings… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: bring *that* to the table
Here we are, friends: sermon time again! For some, it’s World Communion Sunday, or Thanksgiving, or Harvest, or a transferred St Francis’s day…for some it’s a regular Sunday…for some it’s a first or last, or a first-of-the-last. In the NL we’ve got the Ten Commandments—did you know the movie came out 62 years ago today?… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Is there a way?
No matter where in the world you are preaching this week, the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh before the US Senate Judiciary Committee will likely be somewhere in the minds of your hearers. Many pastors and counselors have spoken of receiving call after call from people with their own stories… Read More
