{"id":57250,"date":"2009-12-23T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=57250"},"modified":"2022-12-23T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T02:59:45","slug":"an-idea-for-a-sermon-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/an-idea-for-a-sermon-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea for a Sermon Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Jefferson David Tant\n

\"\"Sometimes preachers are hard-pressed to come up with a good sermon topic.<\/p>\n

In reading some of my father’s old church bulletins from Norman, Oklahoma, (April 1946), he wrote of a famous preacher in London many years ago who announced his sermon for the next Sunday – “A Reaping Hook Well Tempered for the Stubborn Ears of the Coming Crop; or, Biscuits Baked in the Oven of Charity, Carefully Conserved for Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation.”<\/p>\n

If you can develop a good sermon out of that, let me know.<\/p>\n

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If you truly need an idea for a sermon, see our\u00a0list of sermon outlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jefferson David Tant Sometimes preachers are hard-pressed to come up with a good sermon topic. In reading some of my father’s old church bulletins from Norman, Oklahoma, (April 1946), he wrote of a famous preacher in London many years ago who announced his sermon for the next Sunday – “A Reaping Hook Well Tempered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[706,536],"class_list":["post-57250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-humor","tag-preaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25791,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-found-just-the-sermon-i-was-looking-for\/","url_meta":{"origin":57250,"position":0},"title":"I found just the sermon I was looking for","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, While searching the web I came across your web site. 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