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How Long Does it Take to Write a Sermon – According to Jerry Seinfeld

October 27, 2018 by Dan Sullivan

I’ve been listening to interviews of Jerry Seinfeld in the background at work lately, and he said something that is about the best description of writing a sermon that I’ve ever heard. He was asked how long it takes to write a 75-minute show.

“That’s like asking God how time goes into making an oak tree? I don’t know, I do it every day, I do it all day, I don’t know, it’s a tree. I plant it, it grows, eventually, it’s an oak tree, who the hell cares? It’s all I can do. I don’t know…”

I think that’s how was able to survive working at the Rescue mission for 2 years when I might have to preach a sermon any night that my volunteer for chapel didn’t show up. I think that is how I’m able to be a bi-vocational pastor now. Yes, there is some needed sermon prep time to get ready for the sermon, and YES there is some rest time after the sermon to chill and relax, but otherwise, all of my time, all of life, is sermon prep time.

Which also reminds me of 1 Peter 3:15. Some apologists have stolen that verse to mean that you should always be ready to argue about Jesus, but that’s not what it means. It means always be ready to explain what you are doing from the perspective of Jesus. Let everything you do be an outpouring of your faith in Christ, so that you are always ready to explain that Christ is the fuel of your life.

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, — 1 Pe 3:15

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Filed Under: Short Quotes Tagged With: comedy, homiletics, preaching, quotes

Goal of Life vs. Goal of Our Vacation Quote

January 6, 2014 by Dan Sullivan

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

– Dorothy Canfield Fisher, as quoted in Michael Hyatt’s Creating Your Personal Life Plan which you can learn more about here.

I’m working through this to see how it would apply to the guys at the mission.

Filed Under: At the Mission, Bookstore, Short Quotes Tagged With: books, distraction, goals, life planning, mission, quotes, vision

Antagonists, stories, and humble destinies

June 30, 2013 by Dan Sullivan

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Filed Under: Bookstore, Family Life, Handwritten Blog Tagged With: books, calling, life, maturity, quotes

Two Excerpts I Want You To Read

May 16, 2013 by Dan Sullivan

Here are two excerpts from “The Forgotten Ways” by Alan Hirsch

A Note to Leaders and Introduction: http://www.cmaresources.org/files/ForgottenWaysHandbook-excerpt.pdf

and

Introduction and Chapter 1 – Confessions of a Frustrated Missionary: http://assets.bakerpublishinggroup.com/processed/book-resources/files/Hirsch.pdf?1362591025

I’m not sure if I’m allowed to link to these or not, which is why I am not hosting them on my own pages but leading you back to their original sites.

Here is a good overview of the whole book, but I’m not sure I’m allowed to link to it either.

This book is really good and has a ton of thought-provoke for Christians in churches, especially you mega-church folks.

The real thing I was looking for was the addendum at the end. I’ve quoted A Crash Course in Chaos before here, but I came across some of it again today and I just had to promote it again. Check it out, you won’t be sorry.


“The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church” (Alan Hirsch)

Filed Under: Bookstore, Urbia Tagged With: Alan Hirsch, books, Bookstore, church, culture, exponential13, missional, quotes, Reading, theology, Urbia, Verge13

Verge13 Notes via Evernote

March 3, 2013 by Dan Sullivan

Here are my notes from the Verge13 conference. I took copious hand-written notes and then captured them with the notebook feature on Evernote for the iPad. If you scroll to the end, you can save them to your own Evernote account.

Some of it is more detailed than other parts, so fire away if you have any questions.

[Edit: Evernote is secure only, so even though this used to be an iframe, it is now a link to the Evernote bits.]

Filed Under: Bible Study, Featured, Handwritten Blog Tagged With: apostasy, church, discipleship, grace, Jesus, notes, quotes, religion, Urbia

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