1. Intro
2. Film clip 3:17min reenactment Temptation of Jesus
3. Temptations
a. Temptation 1 (Deut verse by Jesus)
b. Temptation 2 (Deut verse by Jesus)
c. Temptation 3 (Deut verse by Jesus)
4. Conclusion - what we learned from Jesus
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Commentaries
Quite frankly, I am downloading everything that looked interesting from Textweek. I am reading it all and letting it ferment as I ponder. I also have a goal with this sermon, as it is my first real sermon, to try and apply the prinicples I learned last semester from Long and Craddock.
It so far has been fascinating. I have the text from Genesis on original sin - or is it original sin (Gen: 3). I can see different threads. I am finding it important to know the source I have downloaded from - what will there base theology be? Is this something I agree with at this point in my seminary journey.
However, at this point in my fledgling sermon writing, I do need to concentrate on the Gospel. With that understanding though, I really enjoyed O.T. last semester so when Jesus is quoting in the Matt text from the book of Deut, I am also finding this intriguing (to build on last semester). So in the commentaries, I am consciously looking for this.
I am also looking for in my internet resources, what can I display visually. I am finding images of the 3 temptations, so that is adding to the mix. Perhaps I do need to concentrate on that aspect of the Gospel story.
Also, I am still trying to understand why and what it means for us that Jesus was tempted. I am also looking for that in the sources I have downloaded.
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
It so far has been fascinating. I have the text from Genesis on original sin - or is it original sin (Gen: 3). I can see different threads. I am finding it important to know the source I have downloaded from - what will there base theology be? Is this something I agree with at this point in my seminary journey.
However, at this point in my fledgling sermon writing, I do need to concentrate on the Gospel. With that understanding though, I really enjoyed O.T. last semester so when Jesus is quoting in the Matt text from the book of Deut, I am also finding this intriguing (to build on last semester). So in the commentaries, I am consciously looking for this.
I am also looking for in my internet resources, what can I display visually. I am finding images of the 3 temptations, so that is adding to the mix. Perhaps I do need to concentrate on that aspect of the Gospel story.
Also, I am still trying to understand why and what it means for us that Jesus was tempted. I am also looking for that in the sources I have downloaded.
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
Article Review
PowerPoint in Preaching?NO!: Intertesting argument that Columbia space shuttle disaster might have been prevented had not engineers been reduced to using PowerPoint to try to communicate complex information. This was an oversimplification of a very complex set of circumstances that led to this disaster from the books I have read on it. This turned me off immediately from this article. Bottom line - for someone who says the word is to be persuaive, he failed miserably at that very task!
PowerPoint in Preaching?: I appreciated this article that it gave a thumbs up for PowerPoint, but did qualify it with very specific guidance for its usage. As a military officer who has put together and seen thousands of PowerPoint briefings, I found this article particularly useful in rethinking the actual mechanics of how a PowerPoint could be used to help illustrate a sermon. I will use this article as guidance for my sermon this week.
Ethics and the Use of Sermon Resources: Our Into to Preaching Class last semester read Thomas Long's book on preaching. He was quoted in this article - "spoke to the need of preachers to provide their congregations with a 'fresh act of interpretation." The author then quoted Neste from Union University. What point do you think the author was trying to convey?
Video as Ethos: I kept wading through the article wondering when the author was finally going to get to the point. However, having said that, from taking History of Lutheranism last semester and having written the final paper on Seminex (main issue what Professors were not teaching doctrine and using the Historical-Critical method), I found the content leading to her final opinion on the use of Video riveting.
PowerPoint in Preaching?: I appreciated this article that it gave a thumbs up for PowerPoint, but did qualify it with very specific guidance for its usage. As a military officer who has put together and seen thousands of PowerPoint briefings, I found this article particularly useful in rethinking the actual mechanics of how a PowerPoint could be used to help illustrate a sermon. I will use this article as guidance for my sermon this week.
Ethics and the Use of Sermon Resources: Our Into to Preaching Class last semester read Thomas Long's book on preaching. He was quoted in this article - "spoke to the need of preachers to provide their congregations with a 'fresh act of interpretation." The author then quoted Neste from Union University. What point do you think the author was trying to convey?
Video as Ethos: I kept wading through the article wondering when the author was finally going to get to the point. However, having said that, from taking History of Lutheranism last semester and having written the final paper on Seminex (main issue what Professors were not teaching doctrine and using the Historical-Critical method), I found the content leading to her final opinion on the use of Video riveting.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Lectionary Text
My text is from the First Sunday in Lent:
Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7
Roman 5: 12-19
Matthew 4: 1-11
It will be my first sermon preached in my Teaching Parish. This text is the tempation of Jesus.
I'm not sure what I am thinking yet.
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