For several months, I have been writing and delivering Torah commentaries at my local Messianic congregation. It’s a fun exercise and a regular writing gig and fulfilling on many levels. These 15-minute mini-sermons are the highlight of my week and often the best discipline to make sure I’m writing something every week. It’s certainly more fun than, say, inventorying office furniture.
However, I’ve rarely been asked to do the full-length sermons until recently. This weekend, I found out I’ll be doing my third-ever full-length sermon and it’s got me excited… and a bit intimidated. I’m really looking forward to the study and prayer that will come before it, as well as the extra length to really explore a topic in; yet I’m such a novelist at heart that such a one-off message even seems limiting in some way; I’d love a chance to do a multi-part message sometime.
Patience, however, is a key virtue in this particular writing calling. So long as I handle what I’ve been given so far, I have to trust that more such opportunities will come my way.
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