An Easter Sermon with Bar Stool and Bottled Water

It was not my normal preaching style, but it worked.  Last week I took a nasty fall on the parking lot, hitting the asphalt with my knee and face.  That means on Easter Sunday I was still hurting, with bumps, bruises and cuts that were healing. I had to continually sip water to keep my throat from getting dry from the prescription medication.  The church where I am serving as Interim Pastor offered to get someone else to preach, and on any other Sunday, I might have let them do so, but it was Easter.  No preacher that I know would give up Easter Sunday, unless they simply could not preach.  So, I sat on a bar stool (or perhaps we should call it a “church stool”) and delivered my sermon from Mark 16:1-15 on the good news of our Lord’s resurrection and it’s meaning to us.  While appreciative, some of the church members expressed surprise that I insisted on preaching in my condition, especially having to sit on the stool, and sip water throughout.  This is what I’ve learned over the years, that was refreshed in my memory on Easter Sunday – the sermon’s content is more powerful than the messenger or his style.  Preach on!