mormonism

I did the sermon on Mormonism. Hopefully, the congretation felt it was balanced and informative. I'm not sure I did a very good job on the beliefs of Mormons since I really didn't understand them myself and basically just read what I had found on line. Which made what happened before the service very scary. I lost my manuscript!! I had placed it on the desk while I copied the bulletin, then I went to the pulpit to pick music for next week as the organist is celebrating her anniversary and will not be playing. Well, sometime after she arrived one of the girl's had picked up the sermon and mixed it in with her papers. I had not really paid attention that she was by the desk and asked the other girl to help me look for it. Long story short, the second girl was very stressed and felt I had blamed her - I didn't and I think we straightened that out -- but I was stressed myself as I could do the history of the book of Mormon and the migration west from memory, but there was no way I could even attempt the doctrine and major beliefs!!! Luckily, the second girl checked the first girl's book bag during the greeting time and the service was able to proceed. Thanks Viv!

Lesson? Always take sermon directly to the pulpit when entering the building!!!

This week we'll finish with Adam Hamilton. Then on the 14th I plan on doing a bit on Darbyism from Eiferd's book Left Behind Question Mark. The 21st is Laity Sunday and Viv will be doing the message. The 28th is All Saints (for us anway). Then I think I might try to tackle the Apocolyptic Literature as a four week series leading into Advent -- have to do the research to see if I can pull it off!!