Hi there preachers, would-be-preachers, gonna-preach-eventually-preachers, I-know-I-have-words-somewhere-preachers… this is your one stop shop for collective groaning, sharing of goodies (virtual), ideas, words of encouragement and general Oh-my-Goodness-where-did-the-week-go calls for help. It’s the middle of Lent; here in Scotland this means two things this week – it’s Mothering Sunday and time for us to catch up with… Read More
11th Hour Preacher’s Party: Where are you encountering God?
In what ways and in which places are you encountering God this 3rd week in Lent? In places of light? Or lurking in the shadows? Is the presence of God illuminating life around you just now or confounding you? Our Lectionary texts, as ever, are a mixed bag that invite us to join in a… Read More
Preacher Party: Lent 2, Mother Hen Edition
Greetings RevGals and Pals! How goes your sermonizing this Saturday, noon-thirty-ish, EST? (Passages are available here at The Text This Week. Reflections and conversation starters are also on this blog, at the Revised Common Lectionary and Narrative Lectionary posts. I also highly recommend this week’s Raven Review post, which takes a fascinating position about the… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Find the Sermon Edition
It’s the first Sunday of Lent, so for Revised Common Lectionary preachers, that means Temptation, every year. Narrative Lectionary preachers are working through forgiveness and reconciliation in Matthew. Maybe you’ve planned a Lent series? Catching up from too many snowy Sundays? Whatever the case, you’re welcome at the 11th Hour Preacher Party! Share ideas, ask… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: T-Fig time again!
No matter how late Easter is, it always feels like T-Fig just happened not that long ago. Here we are again, traipsing up a mountain, wondering what on earth (or in heaven) is going on, and trying to decide if we’re going to be more like Peter talking about buildings, or more like James and… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: From where you are
Lots of emotive triggers in our texts this week, in both the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary. Themes of grief, grace, forgiveness, resourcefulness, compassion, empowerment, themes that cannot fail to speak into all our differing contexts. Knowing the context into which we are called to preach, do we have the courage to go… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: late edition
I’m late! It was my birthday yesterday and I got caught up with festivities and some crisis and this party slipped my mind. But here we are. I’m making homemade cinnamon rolls and hosting the party. There’s plenty of coffee too. So pull up a chair and let’s share our ideas for our sermons tomorrow.… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Gnarled and Twisted Edition
I don’t know about you, preachers, but my mind has a few too many things going at the same time, and my thoughts are all scrambled and twisted up, like the roots on this overturned tree. Let’s see if we can help each other clarify and refine those twisted up ideas. Narrative Lectionary and Revised… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: extreme weather edition!
Some of you have spent the week freezing in the polar vortex, others of you in a heat wave that has sent snakes scurrying for the coolness of the toilet…it seems a week of extremes across the globe! Sunday comes regardless of the weather, though, so here we are…in the NL we have Jesus teaching… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: A better way edition
Do you long for the kind of world outlined in our Lectionary texts this week? A world where the hungry are fed, the naked are clothed, the prisoners freed…? And where blessedness has a whole different set of metrics? The Revised Common Lectionary offers us a variety of alternative realities from the kind of world… Read More
