Sermons of a Young Preacher

Onesimus

Sermon from September 5, 2010
Ordinary 23C
Text: Philemon

Played: 0 | Download | Duration: 00:22:26

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Inspiration this Week:
WorkingPreacher.org
September 5, 2010 | Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 18)

Posted by RyanBurge at 9/7/2010 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Humility and Philoxenia

Sermon from August 29, 2010
Ordinary 22C
Text: Luke 14

Played: 5 | Download | Duration: 00:26:10

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Inspiration this Week:
WorkingPreacher.org
The Word Engaged | The Center for Liturgy Sunday Web Site
Historical Cultural Context | The Center for Liturgy Sunday Web Site
Are You Serious?: Philoxenia
Revised Common Lectionary Commentary - Clippings
Honor/Shame, the Middle East and the American Left - Winds of Change.NET
Shame-Culture and Guilt-Culture

Posted by RyanBurge at 8/30/2010 1:28 PM | Add Comment

Legalism and Sabbath

Sermon from August 22, 2010
Ordinary 21C
Text: Luke 13

Played: 9 | Download | Duration: 00:31:09

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Inspiration this Week:
WorkingPreacher.org
LA judge frees thief who got 25 yrs on 3rd strike - Yahoo! News
The Death of the American Vacation - ABC News
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39_melakhot

Posted by RyanBurge at 8/22/2010 3:10 PM | Add Comment

The Archegos

Sermon from August 15, 2010
Ordinary 20C
Text: Hebrews 11 and 12

Played: 13 | Download | Duration: 00:24:22

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Inspiration this Week:
WorkingPreacher.org
Christ Church, NYC : Sermons
August 15, 2010| Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 15)
Revised Common Lectionary Commentary - Clippings
Lectionary Planning Helps for Sundays | GBOD | Equipping World-Changing Disciples
What is the Great Cloud of Witnesses? � Getting Started

Posted by RyanBurge at 8/18/2010 9:56 AM | Add Comment

A Few Thoughts on Faith

Sermon from August 8, 2010
Ordinary 19C
Text: Genesis 15, Hebrews 11

Played: 18 | Download | Duration: 00:32:16

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Inspiration this Week:
Reflections on Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WorkingPreacher.org
Sermon Seeds for Sunday%sq243%s Readings | United Church of Chapel Hill
August 8, 2010| Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 14)
as we leave the desert. � The Greatest Story Ever Told
Epistle to the Hebrews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Voice Bible Studies, The Book of Hebrews, 11:1-22, Lesson 12
Revised Common Lectionary Commentary

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All is Hevel?

Sermon from August 1, 2010
Ordinary 18C
Text: Ecclesiastes 1 and Luke 12

Played: 19 | Download | Duration: 00:24:13

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Inspiration this Week:
WorkingPreacher.org
Facebook | The Text This Week
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C, Sojourners Magazine/August 2010
Facebook | Links on "The Text This Week"
Facebook | The Text This Week What do you all think is the challenge at the heart of the Luke text, for you and for your communities?
Pale Blue Dot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reflections on Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted by RyanBurge at 8/5/2010 7:43 PM | Add Comment

Open, Closed, Rote, Spontaneous

Sermon from July 25, 2010
Ordinary 17C
Text: Genesis 18, Luke 11

Played: 24 | Download | Duration: 00:33:58

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Inspiration this Week:
Revised Common Lectionary Commentary
July 25, 2010 | Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ninth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 12)
The Word Engaged | The Center for Liturgy Sunday Web Site
Historical Cultural Context | The Center for Liturgy Sunday Web Site
Preparing for Sunday | The Center for Liturgy Sunday Web Site
Revised Common Lectionary Commentary
Amidah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Revised Common Lectionary Commentary - Clippings
Lord's Prayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted by RyanBurge at 7/27/2010 8:22 AM | Add Comment

Who are You?
My name is Ryan Burge, I'm a 28 year old American Baptist Pastor in Mt. Vernon, IL. I served 3 years as a Youth Pastor at FBC Centralia, IL , then one year as Pastor at Warder St. Baptist Church in Marion, IL. I began my tenure at FBC Mt. Vernon in October of 2006. I also am working on my doctoral dissertation in Political Science at Southern Illinois University- Carbondale.

What about your church?
We are a declining American Baptist Church in a somewhat rural setting in Southern Illinois, approximately an hour east of St. Louis and four hours south of Chicago. Our typical Sunday has about 40 in attendance with almost all of them retired. My wife and I are the youngest people in the church by 30 years. We are considered a mainline church , meaning we are more moderate on certain key issues than our evangelical counterparts the Southern Baptists .

How would you describe your sermon approach?
I absolutely reject the school of thought that emphasizes "proof texting," whereby a preacher has a point he/she wishes to make and then uses the scripture to back up this point. The theme of my message comes whenever I begin reading the lectionary for the coming week. I preach heavily from the First Testament for a variety of theological and practical reasons. Theologically I believe that it has been overlooked by many preachers, which I believe is a disservice to congregants . Practically it fits in with what I do well, which is teach while preaching. I believe that a good sermon addresses both the head and the heart and my job is to both educate and inspire my congregation. I also am purposeful in trying to provide background on the culture, history, customs, and context of each specific story, a task that is much easier for the book of 2 Kings than 1 Corinthians (at least for me).

Why this Website?
This is more for me than anybody else. I have endeavored to become a preacher who uses the lectionary exclusively as a source for my sermon text each week and wanted to somehow keep a record of my sermons. I do not use a written manuscript, most Sundays I have a half page of notes and spend most of my time away from the pulpit as close to the front row as I can get. As the lectionary recycles every three years I wanted to be able to revisit how I had approached the passage in the past and hopefully refine my technique as time passes. I also wanted to add to the body of work that is out there by preachers who are using the lectionary.

What is Inspiration this Week?
That began as a way to keep track of the notes that I have made each week. I do the vast majority of my sermon research online and needed a way to archive and catalog each note I made, I use a website called Delicious to do all this work for me. At the end of each week I merely drop those little notes under "Inspiration." Sometime I use all the notes, most of the time I use some of them. It's all in how the Spirit moves and whether I can fit something comfortable in the flow of my message. I get most of my inspiration from a website called Textweek , which is absolutely the best resource for lectionary preachers on the internet. I use it exhaustively.

Can I use your sermon idea/link/etc.?
Absolutely, completely, and totally. I make no claim to have any new ideas of my own , as I stand on the shoulders of those theologians and preachers who have gone before me. So take whatever you would like. Just remember, "It's not where you take things from, it's where you take them to." -Jean-Luc Godard

How can you contact me?
You can email me at ryanburge at gmail dot com

Posted by RyanBurge at 7/20/2010 5:23 PM | Add Comment