Thursday, February 22, 2007
Theme for 2007
Our theme for this year is "Keep Your Eye On Heaven In 2007." The text for our title is Colossians 3:1-4. I have divided the year into four quarters (imagine that?!). The first quarter of lessons are focused on God as the one who possesses heaven. The first month the focus was on the Father. The second month I'm focusing on Jesus as the Son of God who came from heaven to make it possible for us to go to heaven. The third month I will be focusing on the Spirit who also was sent from heaven to us to help us get on the right path to heaven. The second quarter is "Living Heavenly Values On Earthly Soil." I will be doing a sermon series from Colossians. I think that Paul helps the Colossian congregation to overcome difficulties here on earth by keeping their minds focusing on heaven above. The third quarter is "Revive my Longing for Heaven." Mount Dora has been doing a revival theme in September for the last few years so I thought I would keep that theme alive. In September I will have a handout that has a scripture and thought for every day of September. I'm calling it "30 day challenge." I know it's not original (40 days of purpose, 40 days of whatever) but a lot of people really liked it last year when I did a 30 day challenge of "Reviving my Love for God's Word." The final quarter will focus on the second coming, judgment, and eternity. So there you have the year in summary.
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Bob,
I love the plan. It sounds like a great way to mature in the faith of Christ.
I have found planning my sermons to help me grow in faith and only have a smaller level of stress. Planning allows me to study more.
I have posted my years long sermon series on my blog at http://chris.preacherspen.org
I look forward to reading your notes!
Thanks for stopping by Chris. Your current sermon series is quite interesting. One of these days we preachers are going to have to share with one another how we choose our sermons series. I have been planning my sermons a year in advance since 1980. My father-in-law gave me the idea. It was my first year of pulpit work and trying to figure out next week's sermon was stressful. This years sermon series was sort of chosen for me. At least the theme was. I filled in the blanks. I look forward to visiting your site more and seeing your progress on your series. Thanks for your encouragement.
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