This morning, in addition to finishing the revisions to my sermon (posted here on my theology blog) on Matthew 5: 13-20, I made a big bowl of popcorn. I left some of it unsalted and put it in sandwich bags. I salted the rest and made more bags of popcorn.
I'm not crazy about all the sandwich bags, but it's the easiest way for me to do my youth sermon on salt without getting popcorn all over the place, the way we would if I just passed around two big bowls. Plus it minimizes germ spreading--no hands in the same bowl of popcorn.
As I divided the popcorn, I thought about seminary, about my Foundations of Preaching class. In that class, we had a lot to do in a very short time, so I don't fault the professor for not talking about children's sermons much. I'm glad that I'm old enough to have seen plenty of examples of both good and bad children's sermons through the years.
We haven't been together in the physical space as a congregation since January 18--what a winter it has been, and we may get wintry weather next week-end too. I'm glad that today's sermons (both the youth and the adult variety) feel solid.
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