Preaching Quick Hits, Part 2

It’s Saturday night, about 9:30pm mountain time, the kids are in bed, the wife is watching a movie upstairs, and I just discovered live Pink Floyd from ’74 being played on YouTube (with original visuals, no less),  …So why on earth am I blogging about preaching right now, on a perfectly good Saturday night?!?!?

I guess I can’t help it.  Back when I was a vocational minister I had a ritual of sitting down and going through my class/sermon notes every Saturday night.  I’d put some good music on, grab a snack and a soda, and try to get some good review time in before catching the first 30 min. of Saturday Night Live.  No matter how many hours I put into the sermon or lesson that week, I would still review them with a red pen late Saturday night: Indeed, I miss those days (and my little ritual) a great deal.  Perhaps that’s why I’m sitting here, Floyd’s “Us and Them" on my computer speakers, typing this blog about preaching.  It certainly brings back very positive memories.

Preaching 'Quick-Hits', Prt. 1

(note: although the following is in regards to ‘preaching,’ and seeing as how few- if any - preachers will ever read this blog, I invite you to see how these principles might apply to your daily life.  Just because you might not preach, per se, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try and communicate the gospel, daily…perhaps the Spirit might even encourage you through my “thoughts on preaching," so give’em a try!)

I am a preacher at heart, always have been, always will be.  Proclamation of the Word has always been of utmost importance to me, and most of what I have learned in regards to the act and art of preaching came from working experience and from my old man, Wayne Wylie; who, despite the fact that we don’t always see the same on some issues, and despite the fact that our “styles” of rhetoric are incredibly different, I agree with whole-heartedly in regards to the whys, hows, and what-fors we continue to preach, week in, week out. 

  

So here we go, the first of a number of posts in regards to preaching: