General Chat

Did you tie the sermon in with St David's Day?
Saint David would have been quite an interesting person to include because of his beliefs.

Chapter 9 could have writen about you John...

If you spouted chapter and verse as its written its a wonder the flock arent still wondering about the green valleys blank eyed and wearing ear muffs..... ;-) :-D :-D :-D :-D

confidently spout for thirty minutes!!! I reckon you're selling yourself well short there - bet it was much longer

As I said in my previous post John you are a brilliant person

GP

Hi John - what was the general gist? Is it a methodist church?
Very interested.

I know very little of the Bible, GP. I was a late starter as far as church was concerned. Was probably an atheist and used to take the michael out of churchgoers till I was about 36yo. So I can hardly be critical of you or anybody else who takes the michael out of me.

Preaching since 1999 (almost every week) and, although I am still as nervous as a kitten and never feel prepared, so far it has always worked out. :-D

John - Just 5 minutes of notes - You must know the holy book from back to front - its right what you keep telling us you are briiliant person.

GP

if gods with you John tell him

its his round at the bar :-D :-D

could be painful Errol :-D

GP

Errol. My notes are almost unintelligible to me. I kept scribbling bits out and adding bits in this morning when doing final preparation.

No GP - not much googling at all. But I did find parts of this thread to be amazingly useful and would like to thank many of you who have clearly thought about this issue spiritually.

I had notes for about 5 minutes, so fact I was able to confidently spout on for perhaps 30 minutes with hardly any notes and not bore the pants off people spoke volumes for what we can do when God is with us and when you have quite a few very knowledable and thoughtful people on a serious thread like this.

Thanks for posting thread, OFG :-D :-D

Should I be incensed?

Only after they have been boiled in holy water and blessed. So mote it be.

GP

Is that how they choose the new pope?

as for the hot spud it puts a whole new slant on,

One potato ,two potato..... :-D ;-)

lmao GP - very good

It was probably copied and pasted from google.

GP

John it would be fascinating to see a transcript of your sermon as it is so topical

crumbs - you do have a busy day John - attending three services and preaching at another and still time to come on here :-S

Well I wouldn't want to be the one left holding it :-D

As for the mess nobody will be able to walk on the mountainous carpet ;-) there is enough errr....'stuff' been brushed under already :-D :-D

The church is no different to any other organisation, it doesn't want bad publicity!

Does that mean if they drop the potato and it makes a mess of the carpet they will be able to sweep it up?