I have posted my sermon for Sunday, May 25, 2025 on my YouTube channel; go here to view it. If you'd like to read along, I posted the sermon manuscript in this blog post.
My writing process was stranger than usual this week. When I sat down to write on Friday, I still had my colonoscopy on the brain. I looked at the first verse of the Gospel reading, John 14: 23: Jesus answered him, 'Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.'"
I know that the verse is sometimes interpreted "in them" not "with them," and I thought about God and Jesus making a home in my body. I thought about my insides and what had been pouring out of me. I thought about last week's reading from Acts, about pure and impure animals.
I created a very messy first draft, and decided that I just didn't want to do the revising it would take to make the various parts go together more smoothly. Late Saturday afternoon, I started over.
I'm glad I did--yesterday's sermon was much stronger than the rough draft was ever likely to be.
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