Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday October 29TH 2023, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

I’m in Sebring Florida this morning for the 3RD Sunday (out of 5) this month. I’m with my new church family at Highlands Community. I look forward to each new Sunday morning service – led by Pastor Tim. This morning the kids of #HCC will be praising and worshipping our Lord !

Here at home – I continue to work on my sermons. It’s a lot of writing, and it’s a lot of praying. I’m about 7½ pages into my 10-page manuscript (via Microsoft Word, Calibri, 16). So – it’s theoretically about 75% complete. I mention the number of pages in Word and the font type and size because I do preach via full manuscript.

I’m an active participant on a private Facebook group called “Pastors For Pastors”, and it’s exactly what you may think it is. It’s Pastors communicating with Pastors and asking questions and providing and receiving feedback. In a recent poll – “I preach from a manuscript” was a close second place to “I preach from an outline”. To know that many other Pastors – both younger and older than me – preach the way that I do – that made me feel good. I thought that I was archaic – not that there’s anything wrong with that. I tend to be “old-school” in a lot of things that I do. (I write a blog. That’s pretty “old-school”.) I’m an early Gen-Xer (born in 1967). I’ve seen a lot of (mostly) younger Pastors preach via limited notes or no notes at all. I’m not that good. I have preached a handful of sermons with limited or no notes (to mixed results), but my best sermons are the ones that I’ve written over a period of time and rehearsed. I call them my “traditional” sermons.

So – let me get me back to completing my traditional sermon titled “Jude & Judgment”, as it leads to my next sermon after that – also from Jude’s letter.

My testimony is featured here each week on #SundayScripture whether it’s part of a sermon, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord, and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.