It has been a joy to worship and learn together in person and online during this #Homiletics2023. On this final day, we received wisdom, insights and practical advice on craft from both well known and first-time preachers for the Festival of Homiletics. Carry back with you the promise of Barbara Lundblad’s closing sermon: “after it’s over, it isn’t over”!
Will Willimon
Otis Moss III
Workshop takeaways: expand your crate (preaching not just on beats 1 & 3), practice, traffic in story, record a glorious mix tape!
Joy J. Moore
“I’ve heard ‘if you want to be a pastor you need to love people like cat people like cats. Cat people love alllll cats. Cute, young, old, grumpy, they just love cats’”
Cynthia Hale
“God is not into settling, and neither should we be”
“This is the atmosphere in which God likes to work—God loves to make something out of nothing.”
Cynthia Hale at #homiletics2023 “When you think you have nothing to work with, guess what, that’s the environment when God does his best work.” @GFMediaOrg @FestHomiletics pic.twitter.com/UtPLo7z2OL
— Mitch Randall (@rmitchrandall) May 18, 2023
Amy-Jill Levine
“You don’t have to make Jesus’ context look bad to make him look good.”- AJ Levine, on low or poor Christology and it’s effect on anti-semitism. #Homiletics2023 pic.twitter.com/AA8dsNAecq
— Cana Moore (@CanaMoore) May 18, 2023
“It’s hard to recognize anti-Jewish preaching.”
— Clare Sedlacek (@clarecsedlacek) May 18, 2023
“Pray for me, people send me sermons all the time.”
“Help me to hear through your ears…”
“I don’t have time, don’t applaud.”
What a joy to hear Dr. AJ Levine! #Homiletics2023 pic.twitter.com/kowrTYjXyC
Rosemary Bray McNatt
Samuel Cruz
Barbara Lundblad
“After it’s over, it isn’t over.” Maybe John gave us a model for continuing the story.
