Friday, August 27, 2004
"IT’S OVER"
Well, almost! I mean the Sabbatical. Sunday is my first service back from Sabbatical. Tomorrow (Saturday) I have a practice run-through with our projectionist on some of the projection stuff we’re doing as a part of the sermon.
I am looking forward to getting back to preaching on Sundays. The Sabbatical has been good and very worthwhile. I hope to make this an annual occurrence. I feel I used the time very wisely and I am thankful for that. That is usually not the case with me. I often don’t use my time wisely. I fool myself into thinking I have a lot of time and put things off and before I know it, the "lots of time" I thought I had is gone and I didn’t get done what I intended. But this time was different. And I thank God for that.
I am really excited about the service Sunday. At our church we have 4 different worship teams—one for each Sunday of the month. But every fifth Sunday there’s no one regularly scheduled. We usually "scramble" to find worship leadership for those Sundays.
I volunteered for the worship leading responsibility this fifth Sunday! I think it will all be good. A long-time friend of mine who is an outstanding pianist will be working with me in the musical portion of the service. We have planned everything out. I spent a lot of study time on this sermon both before and during the first part of the Sabbatical. It is built around a theme I blogged about July 1st, the difficulty of waiting. And my friend wrote a great song about God not loving us any more. He’ll play and sing it during the sermon.
Also during the sermon we’re doing some other things different. One part will feature a video testimony from a family I know who were told they should have an abortion and terminate the pregnancy of their oldest child. The boy is now a healthy almost 12-year old! The testimony is powerful and moving. I had hoped to have that family present to introduce after the video testimony but a family commitment prevented that. So we’re showing a couple of pictures of the family.
So that’s what is occupying my thoughts and energy right now. Maybe I’ll let you know how it all turns out.
Jim
posted by jim 1:46 PM 0 comments
Comments:
Post a Comment
