Welcome to the Un-Sermon Blog
I’ve
noticed that anything related to
“sermon” is usually considered negative in the common American lexicon.
People also say things like, “Don’t
preach at me!” I like to preach at other people (having done so for the
better part of three decades), but I too dislike it when it seems like someone else
is aiming one of those sermon things at me.
So, if I hope to communicate important ideas in positive, interesting ways, I know I probably have to be un–sermonly about it.
You probably don’t feel like you need one more thing to read, but nobody gets all their ideas from inside their own head. I suspect a majority of our ideas enter through the gates God built into us—the eye–gate, the ear–gate, etc. Too many of my good ideas have entered through the mouth–gate, but that’s another issue (or that’s for another issue of the Un–Sermon Blog).
So, if I hope to communicate important ideas in positive, interesting ways, I know I probably have to be un–sermonly about it.
You probably don’t feel like you need one more thing to read, but nobody gets all their ideas from inside their own head. I suspect a majority of our ideas enter through the gates God built into us—the eye–gate, the ear–gate, etc. Too many of my good ideas have entered through the mouth–gate, but that’s another issue (or that’s for another issue of the Un–Sermon Blog).