I’ve lately encountered a disturbing trend on a number of blogs regarding the use of a projection screen in worship (particularly for sermons). I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this, given the “on/off” reactionary mentality of Protestantism, but at the same time it’s disconcerting. What I’m seeing is the mocking of using a presentation…
Tag: Preaching
Sermon Painting Promo
In March I’ll be presenting on Sermon Painting both at BibleTech09 and at ABCNJ’s regional training event (which bears the unfortunate acronymn COAL). I’ve been told that Sermon Painting is a rather unusual way to make use of a digitial projection screen, so I thought that I would give people a taste of what it…
Kingdom Collision – Reflections
This past Sunday marked the end of the “Kingdom Collision” sermon series at Central. For folks who weren’t reading my blog back when I was prepping Kingdom Collision, this series took a look at the Gospel narrative and then looked at the political impact Jesus’ teachings would have had in the first century. This series…
Pretty Wild Opportunity
Last month I was encouraged by an acquaintence to send in a proposal to do a presentation at the BibleTech09 conference (sponsored by Logos software). I sent in a proposal, thinking that the conference planners would take a look at my name and position and go, “Who is this person and why is he bothering…
Change of Gears – Or, “What I did with my week”
I inadvertantly took the week off of blogging. I just couldn’t find the time to sit down and pound out any thoughts I thoughts. I had some ideas, but oh well. Part of the problem was the fact that by Wednesday the Holy Spirit had changed my plans for preaching and sent me on a…
Lecture’s over, the series begins…
Yesterday I did something that I’ve never done as a pastor, I lectured. I don’t really feel comfortable lecturing in a sermon, which I believe ought to be a meditation on Scripture, but we’re beginning a series that required people to have some “world behind the text” data before we got underway. By lecture I…
