Memorable sermon

It's the geek in me but for a sermon to be memorable I have to learn something new. It doesn't have to be earth shattering. The bar is not that high. It can be a new aspect a new angle on an old truth.

Sermons that review what we have already heard are necessary and can be great. But they were not be memorable. We need sermons like that because we have not truly learned what we have been taught before. We are still sinning, missing the mark. We need to be reminded.

So a good sermon might not be memorable.

I want to gush though about HF's introduction(s) to communion. We do not use a set written prayer but we do communion once a month. There does have to be something of a preparation. We need to make it clear that this is important. We must not take the Lord's Supper without preparation, without taking it in a faithful manner.

A written prayer gets old. Each time we take communion using a set prayer we may pick out one thing to meditate on. Or we may just daydream through the whole thing. That's our loss though.

One could space out through a more extemporaneous introduction too. Maybe its harder though, maybe not. Either way it is our loss.

But I want to repeat, HF did a great job of finding a good scripture to underscore his little message. And he finished strong. It is harder than it looks to do it right. But he did great.