Church Of The Atonement

Attached is my sermon for tomorrow. It’s the first sermon I have ever preached on preaching! Because I have not preached the last two weeks, I have had ample time to reflect, study and pray about the message. Of course what happens when I have extra time is that I find so much rich truth that I have enough material for two sermons at least. I don’t regard time constraints on preaching as a bad thing – at least not very often. There’s the scaffolding of learning that a preacher builds to get to the message of the sermon, and there’s the message itself. A time limit tends to drive me to remove the scaffolding and leave only the message standing. At least that’s the way I think about it. But I have to be careful not to look back at what I’ve removed, or I’ll start second guessing myself! Thanks to computers however -- Did I actually just write that!? -- I save my earlier work so theoretically, I can recall it, though I never do. Th