How Long Should a Sermon Be?

Doctrine and Devotion

Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

There was a good discussion on Twitter recent about sermon length. How long should a sermon be in the 21st century western world? What is the purpose of preaching? Is more time better than less time? Joe and Jimmy get into it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion. It's a podcast that explores Christian faith and
0:18.0	practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor
0:21.9	of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. Now I'm Jimmy Fowler, executive pastor at Redeemer Fellowship.
0:26.9	So there's some kind of ladies hang out pool party. Yep. Going on today. Yep. Fowlers are hosting.
0:35.6	While Michelle is. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I just have a honey do list. Yeah. Yeah. Like provide the house
0:44.3	and the pool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're making the food. Yep. Yeah. You're making the food.
0:49.7	Making the food. I want to come. I was like, you know, I'm not a pool guy. You know,
0:53.8	someone signed up and we have no idea who it is. And I go, Joe, that's Joe. I know it.
1:00.7	I just know it's got to be Joe. No, I signed my name when I signed up. That's what she said.
1:04.0	She's like, no, no, he owns it. Yeah. He owns it. That's not him. So what they put some like,
1:08.6	it's like a weird name. I was like, it has to be Joe. Like flow shorn. What?
1:16.5	Flow from state. Yeah. Flow ride. I was. Was she from? Flow from progressive.
1:23.5	Protein. Yeah. Come on, man. I don't know. Nobody knows flow. I there. You know what?
1:28.9	A flow made me never want to consider progressive. Well, I find her like annoying. So I was like,
1:34.5	nah, I'm not about it. I like, you're not into saving money. I'm not, I don't, I don't know,
1:39.6	the character. It's just the character. I just don't like it. So the character is so bad. Yeah.
1:44.7	To me, if you could save money, you wouldn't. Yeah. No, I'd rather just pay more to be less annoyed.
1:49.5	I mean, I understand that mentality. Yeah. That is my mentality. I understand that mentality.
1:54.4	Depends on how much we're talking. Yeah. Oh, no, for sure. No. Yeah. No. If it was like,
1:58.5	we cut my rate in half then. Yeah. I'll be annoyed. But you see, you got this pool party going on.
2:04.0	And like, you know, I don't want to like, you know, go to a pool in general. But when you were like,
2:10.3	oh, that I'm making steak tacos and elote. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh, man. Maybe I could just,
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