For six years now I’ve been getting together with a group of colleagues so we can plan our preaching for the year. It was Amy Butler’s idea. When I was at First Baptist, DC, she was at Calvary Baptist, just a few blocks away. We would get together at Starbucks on Monday mornings with a few [...]
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Preacher Camp
Posted in preaching, tagged Amy Butler, Don Flowers, Dorisanne Cooper, Jim Somerville, John Ballenger, Lake James, lectionary, planning, Preacher Camp, preaching, Sunday, year on August 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Preachers’ Kids
Posted in Family, preaching, tagged camp, generosity, gentleness, Homipalooza, joy, kids, kindness, lake, love, patience, peace, preachers, self-control on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometime during last week’s annual sermon-planning retreat we started calling it “Preacher Camp.” I’m talking about the event I referenced in my last post, where I get together with five of my closest colleagues for a week to map out our preaching for the year. The difference was that this year we brought the kids. [...]
How I Make a Sermon
Posted in preaching, tagged cooking, Homipalooza, ingredients, preaching, recipe, retreat, sermon, sermon planning, simmer, Sunday on July 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This week I will be attending an annual sermon planning event near Asheville, NC, where five of my closest colleagues and I will try to map out our preaching for an entire year. Three years ago we decided to call this event “Homipalooza,” from Homiletics (the art of preaching) and Palooza (which is apparently some kind [...]
Re-entry
Posted in Church, Community, preaching, tagged bicentennial, Episcopal, First Baptist Church, home, North Carolina, preaching, Richmond, South Caroina, Texas, traveling, Virginia, Wingate Baptist Church, workshop on January 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Last week was a busy week for me. I preached three times at the bicentennial celebration of Wingate Baptist Church in North Carolina, a church I served from 1991-2000. I went from there to a sermon-planning retreat in South Carolina, where five other Baptist pastors and I planned our preaching for an entire year. I [...]
