Issue 11 Preaching and PrayerBlog | A life of prayer
A life of prayer
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 19.06.17
‘How is your prayer life?’ This question may cause us to roll our eyes, and rightly so. It suggests prayer is separate and distinct from the other parts of life.
W ith our busy lives and the competing demands on our time, as preachers prayer may become to preaching like a warm up is to going for a run. We pray before we start preparing the sermon and before we start delivering it. But prayer is not the warm up for preaching. Prayer is more akin to our heart and lungs as we run. We couldn’t do it without them. We couldn’t live without them!
Wedding speeches can range from the profound and beautiful to nervous mumblings from a shy groom, best man, father/mother of the bride, or the bride herself (in certain progressive spaces at least!). Mumbling, stuttering and shyness might require us to listen more carefully, however if wedding speeches were solely about delivery, then people would hire a professional to do them. What makes the speech important is the special knowledge the speech-giver communicates about the newly married couple and their (and our) relationship with them. Deep emotional connections, long shared histories and funny anecdotes abound
