Sermon Preparation workshop

HeartEdge is currently offering a weekly online workshop live with Revd Dr Sam Wells and Revd Sally Hitchiner which may be of interest to church practitioners. 

Every Tuesday at 4.30pm there is a live Facebook preaching workshop focusing on the forthcoming Sunday's gospel.

In today's workshop Sam suggested, "This is a great passage for this Sunday... We are in a Lenten quarantine..."

"Our congregations think about death all the time if we're not preaching about death we're not scratching where they are itching... Nobody ever talks about it... Both of the main readings are about resurrection... "

This Sunday is about feeling grief and lament rather than 'buck up', cheer up. Watch the workshop in full here.

At the first HeartEdge sermon workshop on our Facebook page, Sam and Sally discussed the lectionary readings for Sunday 22 March.

Those who joined them from around the world posed questions that included:

• Has Covid-19 revealed that our perception that we were in control in the world was an illusion, before this crisis?
• What is the difference of writing for people to read and hear on-line rather than in a church building?
• How does discussion feed in to the preparation for those preaching on the theme of Mothering Sunday?

Those who joined the workshop online said:

• 'Thank you for this wisdom.'
• 'Such an encouragement to be finding creative ways of connecting. So helpful to share our experiences in this way.'
• 'Great to have your wisdom. Lots of food for thought about how we can share the Word of God in these challenging times. Thank you.'

View the first workshop discussion here and join back here next week for the next workshop.

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Bob Dylan - Hard Times Come Again No More.