The Old Preacher's 67,600 Pages of Sermons
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The Old Preacher's 67,600 Pages of Sermons
In Marilynne Robinson's beautiful novel Gilead, the old preacher John Ames starts digging through a box of sermons in his attic. One day he figures out that he's filled 67,600 pages with his sermons, the equivalent of 225 books. He wrote, "There is not a word in any of those sermons I didn't mean ...
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- Call
; - Calling;
- Clergy;
- Commitment;
- Duty;
- Expository preaching;
- Faithfulness;
- Goals;
- Influence;
- Ministers;
- Ministry;
- Pastor;
- Perseverance;
- Pleasing God;
- Preacher;
- Preaching;
- Purpose;
- Regret;
- Relationship;
- Responsibility;
- Sermon;
- Servanthood;
- Service;
- Service, faithful;
- Service, Humble;
- Service, Humility;
- Talents;
- Testimony;
- Vocation;
- Wholehearted devotion;
- Witness;
- Witnessing;
- Words
Scripture:
- Exodus 4:10-12
; - Exodus 6:30;
- Ezra 7:9-10;
- Psalm 40:9;
- Isaiah 52:7;
- Isaiah 55:10-11;
- Jeremiah 1:6-7;
- Jeremiah 1:17;
- Jeremiah 15:16;
- Amos 7:15;
- Jonah 3:2;
- Acts 20:20-21;
- Acts 20:27;
- Romans 1:16;
- Romans 10:14-15;
- 1 Corinthians 1:17;
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-5;
- 1 Corinthians 2:13;
- 1 Corinthians 3:6;
- 1 Corinthians 4:5;
- 1 Corinthians 9:16;
- 2 Corinthians 2:16-17;
- 2 Corinthians 3:5;
- 2 Corinthians 4:7;
- 2 Corinthians 5:10;
- 2 Corinthians 10:10;
- 2 Corinthians 11:6;
- Ephesians 3:8;
- Ephesians 4:11-12;
- Colossians 1:25;
- Colossians 1:28;
- Colossians 4:3;
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4;
- 1 Timothy 4:2-4;
- 1 Timothy 4:13;
- 2 Timothy 2:15;
- 2 Timothy 4:1-2;
- James 3:1-2
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