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Well, I preached my first sermon yesterday. 
I am about 95% done with my first two classes at Liberty Baptist University seminary. I am going through their distance learning program, since I am often not home because of work. I had planned for it to be a Bible study, which was an option for the class, because the instructor set certain guidelines regarding our talk that I thought would be better suited to a study. ...And, I didn;t think I was ready for a sermon in front of a large audience (more than 3-4 people). I asked the pastor to sit in on my study, and he told me that I should preach it to the congregation that night. WOW! Talk about nerves! My instructor gave us a choice of Zeph 1, 1 Kings 8 or Psalms 62 to pick a sermon from. We had to focus on 1-2 verses. I chose Psa 62:3-4 and looked at the figures of speech and history behind the passage. My question was: are th enemies of today's leaders different from those that David faced? We had to talk in depth about genre identification and the classification of different Psalms. My conclusion was that our enemies are very similar. This applies to all of us, because we are all leaders on a high place through our service of God. We are God's servants, but leaders of men by our Christian example. When we do God's work, people/Satan attacks us. We need to know how it will come, from whom and how to defend ourselves. Regardless, though, we need to know that the battle is already won. God is on our side, so do not focus on the trial or attack, but on the fact that God is going to protect us. We, ourselves, are the only ones that can defeat us, through stepping out of God's protection.
Well, I felt that I bored them a bit with the finite details of poetry and Psalm classifications.
I also think I may have tweaked a couple of people off because I focused on the NIV because I feel it's interpretation of this verse is right, where the KJV is a bit poorer in interpreting the Hebrew. :o I think the ending went very well and the application rolled off my tongue rather than having to constantly refer to my notes with the ideas about genre and poetry.
Overall, I think it went well, but I have a lot to learn about message preparation, public speaking ... and of course about the Bible.
God bless you,
Dave
I am about 95% done with my first two classes at Liberty Baptist University seminary. I am going through their distance learning program, since I am often not home because of work. I had planned for it to be a Bible study, which was an option for the class, because the instructor set certain guidelines regarding our talk that I thought would be better suited to a study. ...And, I didn;t think I was ready for a sermon in front of a large audience (more than 3-4 people). I asked the pastor to sit in on my study, and he told me that I should preach it to the congregation that night. WOW! Talk about nerves! My instructor gave us a choice of Zeph 1, 1 Kings 8 or Psalms 62 to pick a sermon from. We had to focus on 1-2 verses. I chose Psa 62:3-4 and looked at the figures of speech and history behind the passage. My question was: are th enemies of today's leaders different from those that David faced? We had to talk in depth about genre identification and the classification of different Psalms. My conclusion was that our enemies are very similar. This applies to all of us, because we are all leaders on a high place through our service of God. We are God's servants, but leaders of men by our Christian example. When we do God's work, people/Satan attacks us. We need to know how it will come, from whom and how to defend ourselves. Regardless, though, we need to know that the battle is already won. God is on our side, so do not focus on the trial or attack, but on the fact that God is going to protect us. We, ourselves, are the only ones that can defeat us, through stepping out of God's protection.Well, I felt that I bored them a bit with the finite details of poetry and Psalm classifications.
I also think I may have tweaked a couple of people off because I focused on the NIV because I feel it's interpretation of this verse is right, where the KJV is a bit poorer in interpreting the Hebrew. :o I think the ending went very well and the application rolled off my tongue rather than having to constantly refer to my notes with the ideas about genre and poetry.Overall, I think it went well, but I have a lot to learn about message preparation, public speaking ... and of course about the Bible.
God bless you,
Dave
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). My friend Josh who was cleaning up our junk re-iterated the truth is hard to accept for some - even the sincere.
