In this edition of the Ministry Minded Podcast, I reflect on some developments I have made in my sermon writing process, specifically as regards including quotes in my sermons. I also chew on Ecclesiastes 1 and the fallacy of living for sand, as well as the lesson on ministerial disappointment we can learn from the life of Elijah.
Resources.
“If I Can Just Understand the Arrival Fallacy, I’ll Be Happy,” David Zahl
Stonington Baptist Church sermons
A Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Charles Bridges
Rediscovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes, Zack Eswine
Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End, David Gibson
The Books of Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, Alexander Maclaren
Joy at the End of the Tether: The Inscrutable Wisdom of Ecclesiastes, Douglas Wilson
Grace: So Much More Than You Know and So Much Better Than You Think, Brad J. Gray
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Credits.
Intro music: “Explorers (Instrumental Version)” by The Midnight, The Midnight Music LLC, 2018.
Ad music: “Coffee Stains” by Finley, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Quoting in sermons, living for sand, and Elijah’s ministerial disappointment.