I've given a few sermons at my home congregation in the past, but this is the first one since I've officially become a seminarian. I wanted to avoid giving the kind of sermon that just reeks of divinity school--like an extended treatise on James Fowler's stages of faith development or a contemporary reflection on Emerson's Harvard Divinity School Address--not that there's anything wrong with such things, of course.
I mostly kept it simple and personal and talked a little bit about my call to ministry. Here's an excerpt:
