FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT 2015 JEREMIAH 31:31-34

It’s been a bad week for God. I’ve given him lots of work to do. Because God is like my cleaner. I make mistakes and he goes around afterwards, clearing up the mess. Sometimes he makes it so that I never even have to face the consequences of my foolishness. Some of you know I teach a course on preaching for clergy and prospective clergy in the Diocese. And one of the points I make is that if you’re going to talk about yourself in a sermon make it self-deprecating. So don’t be the hero of the story,make yourself the butt of the joke or be the illustration of how NOT to do whatever it is you’re talking about. And my students would be proud of me this morning because, I’m warning you, I do not come out of this opening story looking good. I was in the supermarket and I was wearing my clerical collar. Now there was a lady bagging my groceries as they passed through the checkout. And she was a very talkative person. She was chatting away to the bagger on the next checkout about nothing in particular, actually, it was about make-up. And I made some instant, and

not very positive assumptions about her.

 

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