{"id":4087,"date":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:52:01","slug":"preaching-with-a-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2011\/11\/20\/preaching-with-a-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching with a valve"},"content":{"rendered":"
A note of hope<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Having written earlier this week about pastoral\u00a0schizophrenia<\/a>, I ended the week preparing a sermon on the irrepressible hope of the Gospel on either side of my visit to the crematorium to conduct a funeral. The thing is, we either believe these things in the face of death, or we never believe them at all, surely?<\/p>\n Today’s sermon is on\u00a0Revelation\u00a021 v. 5, and I have chosen to read it from the King James Version, rather than a more modern equivalent. The reason for my choice is that in the\u00a0King\u00a0James it sounds like more of a fanfare than the rather anodyne words in its successors. The words “behold, I make all things new” ring out across the centuries, summoning the people of God from the shadows.<\/p>\n This morning I shall enlist the help of a trumpeter to make my point- starting the sermon with a fanfare, and ending with the distant sound of the trumpet. Sadly I have no video of my particular\u00a0trumpeter, but I leave you with the sounds of Wynton Marsalis to make the point, as he plays the theme tune to…’Good Morning Sunday’ on CBS<\/p>\n [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K_ZuxYxxT60&w=400&h=300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A note of hope Having written earlier this week about pastoral\u00a0schizophrenia, I ended the week preparing a sermon on the irrepressible hope of the Gospel on either side of my visit to the crematorium to conduct a funeral. The thing … Continue reading