“Faithful Forgiveness”: the Perseverance of Forgiving Saints

“Faithful Forgiveness”: the Perseverance of Forgiving Saints

For my first homiletics class at Westminster, called “Gospel Communication,” this was the sermon I gave. It’s on “The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant” in Matthew 18 and deals with forgiveness. It’s about 30 minutes long. Personally, being my own worst critic, I see many flaws in it (the structure was somewhat muddled, I talked too fast, and I somewhat went against the traditional interpretation of the text), but overall I was pretty happy with it. It seemed like the class was as well. If you don’t have 30 minutes to spare, just listen to the last 8 minutes or so. I think that’s the point I hit my most significant “flow.”

May 2nd, 2009 by paulburkhart 
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“Us & Them”- The One New Man from every tribe, tongue, & nation

“Us & Them”- The One New Man from every tribe, tongue, & nation

This was presented the summer of 2006 to a Summer Interdenominational Campus Fellowship. It was student-led, so different students presented each week. This was the first time I had ever done something like this before. The original idea was to do a sermon on “Unity within the body of Christ.” But as I soon discovered, just as in the Trinity, one could not divorce Unity from Diversity. I think the exegesis is surprisingly solid, even for having been so young at the time. The presentation though is another matter. I was so nervous and I went to far too many texts. Also, it was supposed to be 12-15 minutes. I went on for 35. Enjoy.

January 17th, 2009 by paulburkhart 
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