Tuesday, September 21, 2010

You Know You Are in For A Long Sermon When...

I had to share part of this list because it made me smile today. These are all opening lines to sermons you probably aren't too eager to hear..

1. Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking...
2. Yesterday's Cubs game has many parallels to this morning's text...
3. This morning's message has twenty points...
4. Last night I had a dream - of footprints in the sand...
5. Cereal boxes don't usually lead to sermon ideas, but this morning...
6. Here are the notes for the sermon I was going to give, but I've decided I'm led to wing it...
7. At first glance, variants between the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text don't seem all that interesting, but...
8. Webster defines (insert any word) as...
9. A funny thing happened on the way to church this morning...
10. I always like to open my sermons on the word of God with a joke...