RoboPreacher

a sermon for good friday Truthfully, it never ceases to amaze me that y’all show up… I’m always surprised because, honestly, we live in a frenzied world. With all that is on everyone’s plates these days, I am surprised that on a Friday evening, you’d drop everything you already have going on to come here … Surely there is no shortage of tasks clamoring for your attention: what with cleaning, bills, the Easter meal to prepare, and so on. Isn’t there already enough to do without coming to church on Friday Evening? Sadly, though, it isn’t just how full our plates are, that makes your presence here a surprise… The real reason I’m always surprised by your presence, honestly, is that we live in a skeptical world… And who can blame the skeptics, after all? What, with racially charged shootings in Kansas, the violent crimes that have happened here lately, the Ferry sinking in South Korea, the long winter, and that’s not to mention the personal calamities we each k...

for your trials & tribulations.   Okay, I just got to ask: why are you here? Isn't there already plenty you have to do without coming to church on a Friday evening? Aren't you busy enough? Why are you here?   In fact, many of you were here yesterday, weren't you? So why come again today?   Not only were you here yesterday, I'm willing to bet many of you will also be here for our Easter Vigil (tomorrow at 8 pm) or Easter (Sunday at 9 am) service. Do you need another thing to do, another place to be? Are you looking for something to occupy your time, because if you are I've got a box of files that needs sorting... What is it that brings you here, to this place, today? I admit have a suspicion, though. A hunch as to why you're here... And it isn't because that's how you've always done it. And it isn't because you're church rats. And it isn't because you're not busy enough ...