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| The Face of God | | Date Created: Aug 29, 2005, 11:07 AM |
 I don't often post sermons to my blog. In fact, I don't normally allow my sermons to be distributed beyond my congregation. Not that anybody really wants them. But I'm sensitive to the temptation to preach to a broader audience and not the congregation to which I am called to serve. Pastors who have their sermons televised and/or widely distributed to national audiences tend to pitch their sermons to a very general audience. I've sought to avoid this, for what it's worth. I don't want to be constantly worried about what someone in Oregon might think about what I said.
Even so, here is a sermon that I think might be of interest to a more general audience. Not because it is such a fine specimen of homiletic rhetorical skill. Quite the opposite, I'm sure. Being an evening sermon, it is much more of a Bible lesson than anything else. The lesson comes from Jabob's wrestling with God at the river Jabok, as given in Genesis 32:22-32. Contrary to popular American religion the event narrated here is not Jacob's conversion. But you'll have to listen to the sermon to learn more. |
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