Life, Interrupted

My first sermon for my 1st year Doctor of Ministry project was entitled "Life, Interrupted." It deals with a rather frightening parable that Jesus tells in Luke 12:13-21. You can read the sermon manuscript here.

To understand what I am trying to accomplish in this and in the other first year sermons, you might want to read my first year Learning Covenant, which lays out my project. In preparing for this particular sermon, I attempted an "incarnational translation" of the text and shared it with my Parish Project Group. Although I did not end up using it in the preaching moment, it was a very useful tool for getting at the question of what this text is trying to do. You can read my attempt at an incarnational translation of Luke 12:13-21 If you want to know more about the thinking that went into the sermon and my sense of how it went, you can read my reflection paper here.