This is was too good not to put here. It reminds me of Lovett's three circles...Mission, Vision??? and something else I think. This one is entitled, "Understanding the Sermon" from "Cartoon Church." I needed a laugh after fully realizing that a full 3/4 of my sermon manuscripts from the last 15 years are lost...lost, I say. Philip took our old Mac, and he deleted the old data on it. Groan. I mean there really aren't words to describe it. I even called Broadway and had Gloria check to see if there might be any floppies with old sermons on them there. There are tapes of most of the services I preached there, so if we find out there is absolutely no way to recover the info on the computer, then I may pay one of my children to listen and type out the texts, though that sounds really like cruel and unusual punishment. I do have 1/4 or so of my sermons on disc still. I am preaching on Sunday at Richmond (preaching is not something I do very often these days...at least not during a worship service). Some folks are telling me there may be a way to recover the lost stuff. I surely hope so. Perhaps I am being told by a power greater than myself to get over it and get some new things to say. I cannot believe God could be that cruel. Please God, show us the way.
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Love this one especially the circles about the sermons.
I like the cirles, and I wonder if the same is ture of the speakers. And one varible remains outside the box. The Spirit.....
Hey Susan,
There's an outside chance that you could take your old Mac into a computer tech, and they may be able to recover you stuff... I don't know how thoroughly the "delete" kills a file on old Macs.
Awesome diagram by the way...;-)
Love the circles, I'm going to have to file that away for a later use/abuse.
As for the missing sermons... could be God's way of saying move on. I have all my sermons since 1999 on CD. I've gone back occassionally to see if there is something worth salvaging. All that came to me was God saying "See, I am about to do a new thing." and not "See, I make all things new."
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