Pinch Hitting...

Today was one of those productive days that I didn't seem to get all that much done.

My colleague Sean at Hopedale Presbyterian Church is on vacation. I covered a funeral for him today of a well-loved member of his congregation. I was glad to do it, although it did mean that my normal administrative duties for Monday have to wait until Tuesday. Looking ahead to Sunday, it's Presbyterians Sharing... which has the advantage of a suggested sermon complete with Powerpoint slides.

Admittedly I've never really done a sermon with powerpoint before. Mostly they've provided the backdrop for the Bible Studies that I have done. However, the presentation from national office is fairly minimalist, and I may be able to do something with it when I post it as a sermon this coming Sunday. I'm looking at this as a learning opportunity, I'll have to give the "script" from the national church a much closer read, and perhaps a bit of an edit. I've already had to do some alterations to the Powerpoint presentation.

We'll see...

The upside of using pre-prepared materials for worship is that I can actually devote a bit more time to getting the website fully operational for "Stage One" as well as looking ahead to "Reclaiming Revelation" and completing hymns out to November 26th.