A sermon must have an introduction, a body and a conclusion. I often equate a sermon with flying. Every time you fly in an airplane, you experience the take-off, the flight, and the landing. A memorable flight involves all three going well. A sermon must have a powerful take-off (int...
I am making notes on the story as I go, which isn’t the usual way I like to work, but I’ll stick with it now. If you’d like to know more, see my previous post for more details(https://johnrsermon.com/2021/09/25/a-journal-to-start-and-stop/). This idea got me thinking...
August 16, 2021 Ronovan Humor, Videos/Music British, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Humor, humour, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Pilchards, Songs, Teddington Lock, Trout, Videos A little Monday Monty Python for you and you and you and you and you. (Singing those...
7 a computer records STH 计算机记录某事 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] if a computer writes something, it records it on a disk or in its memory 〔计算机〕将…写入〔磁盘或存储器〕 write to/onto data that had been written to disk 写入磁盘的数据 ...
If you’re not familiar with what Jesus said about salt and light, here’s a paraphrase from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter five, the Sermon on the Mount: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will it be made salty again? It is then good for...
Regardless of when the first true Fathers Day occurred, the strongest promoter of the holiday was Mrs. Bruce John Dodd of Spokane, Washington. She thought of the idea for Fathers Day while listening to a Mothers Day sermon in 1909.
I remember our old pastor in Iowa doing a sermon on why it’s so hard for each generation to let go and reach back to lift up the next generation. Pastor Matt Temple was brilliant, and continues to be brilliant, in his analysis. The older generations can’t let go because it’s who...
Today’s Sunday sermon comes as something of a compare and contrast. Admittedly it also lays itself open to accusations of shooting fish in a barrel, but I’m prepared to take that risk. Here at Driven to Write, we have something of a soft spot for underdogs. However, some are more eq...
Breakthrough: 1973 Datsun 120Y Sunny. Image: honestjohn.co.uk Datsun’s breakthrough model in the UK was the 1973 120YSunny. Like its predecessor, the 1200, the 120Y had a rigorously conventional, conservative and well-proven mechanical layout, but was clothed in a smooth contemporary body...
“And that was how I saved the city and lost my best friend.” Or “I still remember that day, when in front of the king, I pledged to be a knight of St. John. And all it cost me was a broken heart and my spleen.” Whatever. It should be memorable enough to echo in the re...