Ughhh! I've spent all day working on my sermon and I have nothing to show for it. I hate it when prep goes like this. I feel like the more I preach the worse I get, or at least the more uninspired and tedious preparation goes. It is less about a mighty move of the spirit and more about discipline... which is also a spiritual thing.
I want to separate the message into two parts: part one will be called "Uprooting" and part two will be "Planting, growing, and sharing the fruit,". The idea is that our hearts are like gardens (wow, an ongoing theme in my life). Anything growing in the garden of our heart was planted there at some point, whether blown in on the wind or planted by our hand. We can tell weeds because they don't look like something that we want growing in our hearts.
Some plants have insidious roots that wrap around our hearts and squeeze them almost to death.
This is the main part about healing. But healing is also about replacing what is taken out with something else... which leads to the second section...
You know a tree by it's fruit and a garden can't just be weeded. Beauty must be cultivated. We have to plant heavenly kingdom plants and weed and prune.
So there is the idea in a nutshell... now to the writing and service planning, though service planning first.
