It's hard to judge our own sermons, because the sermons that I like the best are the ones
people don't really care about, and then the ones that they love are the ones that I kind
of phoned in.
Like I'll literally, I'll get up and just kind of phone it in, and I'm like, I'm barely
even prepared, and I just go off on something, and I'm just like, that was a shallow sermon,
and it's like, that's everybody's favorite.
And then I'll put all this work into some 30 hours of preparing for some sermon, and
people are just like, meh.
Well, I will say that Pastor Shelley, I think that Pastor Shelley's sermon, actually, I
didn't really, I don't even think I listened to the sermon, but I kind of got it over the
phone sermon from him.
He did some really groundbreaking revolutionary study on the Passion Week, as far as the chronology.
That was super interesting and really compelling stuff.
I don't think I ever heard the sermon, because I had it preached to me over the phone for
like six or seven hours, so I felt like I had already heard it, but that was really
good stuff.
See, that's a perfect example, because that would be a sermon that I really enjoyed preaching,
but that evening I preached skills to pay the bills, and everybody complimented that.
Yeah, that's exactly.
I literally wrote that sermon in 30 days.
They're basically like, we put out a single, and the DJs basically flip it over and play
the B-side, and we're like, whoa.
We're like, that's a B-side, all right?
This is the sermon that matters.
Yeah, my favorite sermon of his is binding, grinding, and grinding on Samson.
That's an old one.
He re-preached it from somebody else.
Yeah, I did, actually.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, but I re-preach stuff all the time.
There's nothing new under the sun.
Yeah, if it's a great truth in the Bible, it needs to be preached again.
But I'm trying to think of what are my favorite sermons that I've preached.
Focus, focus was good.
You got to have the video.
How did you think to wear the robe and do the toilet rock?
I don't know.
It just came to me.
Did that come after the sermon was written, or is that what inspired the sermon?
I think I built the whole sermon around that part.
But you know, it's hard for me to think about past sermons, because when I preach a sermon,
I kind of just move on from it, because I'm kind of thinking about the next sermon.
I think the most important sermon that I've ever preached is the one I just did an hour ago.
That was the one.
And you guys were here.
We were all here for it.
No, but seriously, my favorite sermon is the one that I'm preaching right now.
I don't really dwell on the past too much.
That's one that's probably been played the most.
Here's a sermon that I preached.
I put out those little flash drives that were called, like, Pastor's Pick.
I'm going to do another one, in fact.
In fact, I should do that immediately, because I haven't done one in a couple of years where
I pick my 30 favorite sermons of the year.
I preached a sermon called Jesus Wept.
That was one of my favorite sermons that I preached.
And Peter.
Oh, yeah.
You know that sermon, And Peter?
I ripped it off from another preacher, because that was Brother Hiles.
Brother Hiles preached a sermon called, And Peter.
And that's where I got the idea.
So there you go.
Your favorite was a rip-off too.
But hey, that's why I ripped it off, because it was so good.
You know, that is one of my favorites too, actually.
In fact, on that Pastor's Pick USB, one of them, that was track one.
So that is one of my favorites too.
Well, I made that track one, because it explains everything that comes after.
It gets you ready for everything else, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll tell you that the sermons that I like the most, but it's not the ones that the people like the most.
The sermons that I like the most is like I did a sermon called, you know, Greek, the language of the New Testament or something.
Or like the sermons that I did against oneness are some of my favorite all-time sermons.
Like the sermons where I'm debunking oneness and preaching on the Trinity.
Those type of sermons are my favorite sermons, the ones that are like the deep doctrinal sermons.
Those are my favorites.
But the sermons that people like the most are more the kind of rip-roaring kind of sermons.
Which to me, those are not my favorite sermons.
You know, I preach them because they need to be preached.
But I enjoy preaching the deep doctrinal stuff, like the stuff on the Trinity is some of my favorite.
Even though obviously that was a painful experience to go through of having this heresy pop up and having to deal with it and fire someone and fight that battle.
To me, it was worth it because of the sermons that came out of it and the study that came out of it and the learning that came from it.
It was all worth it.