I was pleased with my sermon yesterday--it was a tighter composition than I'm always able to pull together. And I feel like both sermons went well. I preached on Matthew 5: 12-20, and I decided to focus on salt alone. The believer as light metaphor is fairly easy to understand, and I feel like I've done that several times before. But I didn't see any references to salt in my past sermons.
Yesterday morning, for the youth sermon, 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.
I did check with the parents before giving out popcorn--no allergies to popcorn or salt. If I preach on this passage in the future, I might do the same for the adults.
To read a manuscript of my adult sermon, see this blog post. To see the recording, I uploaded it here on my YouTube channel.
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