1. Try reading it backwards. The page shows the latest posts first, so if you want them in sequence you have to start at the end. 2. Because I'm just making notes of what I'm thinking. It may not make sense to me either, yet. 3. Because I work well by following up links and associations and things something reminds me of. So it may well seem a bit random to someone else. 4. Quite often something stays in for a long time and drops out of the sermon when I preach it. It means I was using it to think with but it didn't seem to be part of what I was saying, in the end. 5. If there aren't any posts for a week, it just means I'm not preaching that week. Or it means I'm having a terrible week and I'm going to write a sermon on Saturday night. 6. You can ask in the comments about things that don't make sense.
Well, how I write a sermon. Your method may vary. Look at the readings. Look at which service(s) you're preaching in. Let the readings sink in. Go away and do other things. Come back later in the week and have another look. Write down ideas that occur. Follow them up. Pull all this together. Write it down. Write it as notes - if you know what you mean, you can write one word and not a whole paragraph. You're not going to stand there and read it out. The point of writing it down is to make sure it's coherent, to see how everything links together, and to see where it's going. Print it out on one A5 side. Go to church.
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