apreacherandsometimepoet
My blogs
| Location | Charlottesville, VA |
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| Introduction | Most sermons are constructed from planks of prose, measured, cut and nailed together. The preacher as a good workman has no cause to be ashamed when he or she pronounces the Amen. The community of faith that rests in the shelter of these good sermons--biblically sound and well constructed--will find comfort and direction. But something more is wanted, and all who have once experienced that something more come to worship in the hope that this time a phrase will turn in an unexpected direction and the worshiper will follow the preacher out of that well-constructed shelter into the open where our hope can grow as big as the sky. Or the path we follow may lead us into a wild place with eerie sounds and threatening shadows and on to an adventure that we had never before dared to take. That's what's wanted, though most times when I preach I preach in prose, but sometimes I am a poet; this tells my story as a preacher and sometime poet. |
| Favorite music | Anything by Bach, the Statler Brothers or Duke Ellington |
| Favorite books | The Bible, Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan), Purity of Hear is to Will One Thing (Kierkegaard), |