Tonight marked the second time in three days that I’ve had to apologize to someone for making a blunt, ill-conceived remark. What makes the situation even worse is that the same person was on the receiving end both times! Thankfully, amends have been made, but at this point I’m considering not speaking for a couple of weeks. So much for preaching on Sunday.
In other news, the next (and final!) semester at Southeastern Seminary is scheduled to begin on August 16th, and with the impending academic rush my blog output is sure to increase. It’s inexplicable — the more free time I have the less creative and productive I become. Buckle your seatbelts, though, because I am taking Preaching II and will have plenty of mortifying stories on how I embarass myself before about fifty other students. I leave you with a quote by the Reverend Jonathan Edwards which has become increasingly dear to me:
So far as I am able to judge of what talents I have, for benefiting my fellow creatures by word, I think I can write better than I can speak.
Amen, brother Edwards.
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Source: “Letter to the Trustees of the College of New Jersey,” October 19, 1757, in Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 16, ed. George Claghorn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
Great quote!!
drew, just say “Amen?” alot in your sermons and yell and you’ll do fine in sermon delivery
Hmm…I’ll have to try that out this Sunday.
Dr. Heisler said that if you have to fish for the Amen, then it doesn’t count.
CAJ