What’s your favorite sermon you’ve ever preached?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Pastor J.D. reflects on his two-sermon series on Ecclesiastes—his underrated favorite.
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Well, like a typical pastor, I just can’t narrow it down to one–I say whatever I am preaching at moment– and so many have spoken and challenged me directly in real, tangible ways before they ever made their way onto the stage.
A few years ago, I did preach a short, two-sermon series on the book of Ecclesiastes which has always sort of been an “underrated favorite” of mine. The first sermon was called “It’s all gone to hevel,” because that word “hevel,” is a Hebrew word the author uses in the second and third verses, which set the theme for the book. He says, in our English translations, something like “Vanity, vanity, everything is vanity. What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?” Probably the best way to sum that up is to think about a cloud or a vapor. When you look at a cloud, it looks like a giant, fluffy pillow you could lay down on. But if you’ve ever been in an airplane (or jumped out of one), you know that there’s really no substance to a cloud… you just pass right through it. They’re full of nothing.
The goal of any sermon should be worship.
Others that are life messages that typically turn into books later: Gospel, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
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| 0:00.0 | LifeWay Leadership Podcast Network. |
| 0:36.1 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to Ask Me Anything. My name is Matt Love. I'm here with Pastor J.D. Greer. And J.D., just in case anybody's forgotten, this is a podcast where you give quick answers to some of the toughest theological, ethical, and leadership questions. |
| 0:37.8 | What are we defined? What are our definition of quick is? |
| 0:38.3 | Are we still? |
| 0:39.3 | What is quick? |
| 0:42.9 | I think as long as, I think we're still under the average commute time. |
| 0:44.1 | I think that's where we're at right now. |
| 0:45.3 | I think we're still in good shape. |
| 0:46.0 | We'll see what happens. |
| 0:55.2 | I do think we're going to break a little bit out of tough questions for this, this one today, but it is a good one. So, J.D., question today, what is your favorite sermon that you've ever preached? |
| 0:59.0 | I feel like this question ought to be reversed, and you ought to be answering, what is the favorite sermon you've ever heard me? |
| 0:59.9 | I'm not going to lie if I didn't take at least five minutes and try to think about what would come to mind. |
| 1:03.9 | So I'll answer sort of tongue in cheek, but not really, that my favorite sermon ever is whatever one I'm working on at the moment. |
| 1:13.3 | I feel like it really is a sort of, you know, sermon messengers are supposed to come out of your heart and your life. |
| 1:18.0 | So there are things that ring so, especially if I'm walking through them and theseasive, but just to say that if you talk to me in any given week or any given time, it will be whatever I'm talking about. |
| 1:31.9 | So I was thinking, because I knew you were going to ask that, I was thinking like what are some that have just really kind of stood out given the distance of time? |
| 1:39.5 | You know, I would say, can I give more than one? |
| 1:41.9 | Yeah, go for it. |
| 1:42.9 | There was a, there was a little short message series I did, a year and a half, two years ago, |
| 1:49.5 | on the book of Ecclesiastes, which is one of the most enigmatic, is that how you say that |
| 1:54.3 | word? |
| 1:54.9 | Yeah. |
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