Luke 19:11-27, The Parable of the Pounds. This is a sermon I preached for class this week. Feel free to watch until you're bored with it :) It's a little more bold than some of my other sermons, but, then again, it's easy to be bold when you're preaching to a bunch of seminary students. Enjoy!
Saturday, 12 April 2008
Thursday, 10 April 2008
What Makes You Cry?
Frederick Buechner says this:
"You never know what may cause them. The sight of the Atlantic Ocean can do it, or a piece of music, or a face you've never seen before. A pair of somebody's old shoes can do it... a horse cantering across a meadow, the high school basketball team running out onto the gym floor at the start of a game. You can never be sure. But of this you can be sure. Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next."
What is it about this video that makes me want to cry unexpectedly? What mystery, what secret is revealed?
[Warning: This video is artistic and the lyrics are in Icelandic, so if it's too wierd for you, don't watch it.]
"You never know what may cause them. The sight of the Atlantic Ocean can do it, or a piece of music, or a face you've never seen before. A pair of somebody's old shoes can do it... a horse cantering across a meadow, the high school basketball team running out onto the gym floor at the start of a game. You can never be sure. But of this you can be sure. Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next."
What is it about this video that makes me want to cry unexpectedly? What mystery, what secret is revealed?
[Warning: This video is artistic and the lyrics are in Icelandic, so if it's too wierd for you, don't watch it.]
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