I love my job. As a preacher, I don’t make up much new stuff to say.
I am simply a re-stater. I repackage timeless truth.

In other words, I don’t really create new content. I creatively present and apply the content that the Creator has recorded.

Man, this makes me confident. And it leaves me a lot of running room. It doesn’t hold me back. It actually sets me free.

Tomorrow I’m preaching on a certain subject.

There have been millions of Bible studies taught and sermons preached on this same subject.

Mine certainly won’t be the wisest, deepest, or most profound ever preached. But it will be served up fresh for our congregation in our generation in a way that’s practical.

What an honor to do what I do.

I was listening to a sermon by a friend of mine tonight. (I usually do to get pumped up on Saturday nights.) And I thought about this. He has this unique ability to say stuff that you’re used to hearing so passionately that it’s like breaking news when it comes out of his mouth. Never mind that it was written thousands of years ago. It seems more current than the newspaper. This is the mark of a good preacher.

And it is proof of the eternal relevance of God’s Word.