01 Dec 05 113345115064144871

Old habits are hard to break, good or bad. I’ve never been much of a morning person. I’ve confessed this to you before in an earlier post. I’m not against the morning or morning people. Though some morning people can be somewhat annoying. When the house is quiet, when the only sound is the hum of my CPU, that‚Äôs when the ideas and concepts begin to surface.

I’ve been writing like crazy the last few nights. I think I’ve found some inspiration in the work ethic of Dr. Begin and his most recent accomplishment. I’ve been inspired as of late and find myself doing quite a bit of late night writing. I wrote the bulk of my doctoral dissertation during months of these late night writing sessions. That might explain why it always made sense at the time but doesn’t make sense when I read back through it now!

The good thing is the inspiration. Another good thing about inspiration is you actually have an idea with which to work. One of the hardest things about preaching is coming up with something to preach. Not knowing what you are going to talk about carries with it a large amount of weight. Just coming up with a topic or a sermon idea is half the battle. So I look forward to these periods of inspiration and write as much as I can. There are times when I’m so out of ideas, so void of inspiration that when that muse graces me with an idea it is like turning on a sprinkler to soak a dead lawn.

So, I’ve sketched out a series of lessons for the month of December that I will start this week. I’ve been writing all week preparing for lesson one which at this point is about 20 pages in length. One of my favorite teachers used to tell us “boys, for a sermon to be immortal it does not have to be eternal.” That and, “no soul saved after 20 minutes.” So I will spend the rest of the week editing and condensing.

I’d better get to it quickly or Greg will have nothing to preach this week.