Worship the Lord

Preachers The Festival of Young

Description

The world-wide revival of religion is one of the surprising phenomena of modern life, and this volume of sermons by young American preachers is a testimony to that fact. One hundred and twenty gathered in Atlanta in January of 2018 to preach under the theme of this book, Worship the Lord. is collection of many of those sermons joins the previous eight in this important series to expand the most original and extensive archive of what young Christian leaders in America are thinking and saying. Give one of these books to a young person you know who is discerning a call to gospel preaching.

Sujets

• Sermons
• Philosophie et théologie
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Chalice Press
• Date de parution: 31 janvier 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780827243286
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

National Festival of Young Preachers Sermon Series
Dwight A. Moody, general editor
A Beautiful Thing (2010)
Waking to the Holy (2011)
Uncommon Sense (2012)
Gospel and the City (2013)
Questions of the Soul (2014)
Pentecost on Mockingbird Lane (2015)
Heaven and Earth (2016)
Rabbi, Radical, Redeemer, Risen Lord (2017)
Worship the Lord (2018)


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Dedication
Everett McCorvey
and the
American Spiritual Ensemble

National Festival of Young Preachers Sermon Series
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Young Preacher Sermons
1: Don’t Lose Your Song
2: God’s Benefits Package
3: Worshipping Through Tears
4: Psalms of Lament and Depression
5: An Intangible Issue
6: The Lord is My Shepherd
7: In God’s Way
8: Darkness is My Friend
9: God’s Not-So-Secret Service
10: Stress Relief
11: If God Had A Love Language
12: Pep-Talk Worship
13: What Lies Beneath
14: How Do We Sing When We Would Rather Wail?
15: To Be a Living Psalm
16: Forgotten Prayers and Pointless Worship
17: The Heart Transplant
18: Preaching to the Fed up
19: Everyday Is a God Day
20: Family Meeting
21: Worshiping through a Dark Season
22: To God Be the Glory
23: Still I Sing!
24: Give Thanks
25: To Worship You Live
26: The Sound of the Believer
27: Worship the Lord
28: Giving Thanks in a Cave
29: When the Wounded Worship
30: The Praise of God
31: Why We Worship
32: Get Your Own!
33: Through The Battle We’re Gonna Worship
34: From Then Until Now, God Is Faithful
35: Between Tambourines and Trumpets
36: When God Draws Near
37: A Kingdom Calling
38: You Have Searched Me, O Lord
39: A Light for the Path
40: Total Praise
41: Knowing God by Doing His Work
42: Praise the Lord!
43: Because I Know God
44: God Is Our Comfort Blanket
45: While You Were Sleeping
46: Offering the Worship of Emotional Authenticity
47: Dusty Harps
48: God is Clutch
49: A Prophetic Word to Faithless Exiles
50: A Joyful Noise
51: Something to Sing About
52: Dancing with Difference, Singing for Change
53: Can I Kick It?
54: Creator of the Stars of Night
55: God’s Handiwork
56: Worship is Resistance and Resistance is Worship
57: What Worship Requires
58: Where Are You Going with No Directions?
59: Charged To Worship
60: There’s Still Hope in the Valley
61: When Despair Meets Hope
62: The Blueprint for Worship
63: A Paradigm for Worship!
64: When Hope Hurts
Plenary Sermons and Articles
65: Sound and Fury
66: The Young and the Restless
67: Jesus Came Preaching
68: A Prophet and a Shepherd
69: Not One Stone Left on Another
70: questions and stories
List of Contributors
Academy of Preachers Class of 2018
Covenant of Gospel Preaching
Academy of Preachers
About the Editor


Preface
I am pleased once again to present a volume of sermons to the wider world of Christian faith and gospel preaching. With one exception, everything in this volume comes from the ninth National Festival of Young Preachers, sponsored by the Academy of Preachers and held in January of 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. While the preaching of the 120 young adults remains, as always, the focal point of this edition of our annual book of sermons, the festival itself was memorable for all of us as the public transition from my ten years of leadership in the AoP to that of the new president, the Rev. Ernest A. Books, III. He and I preached a tag-team sermon in the final service, what we call The Great Amen. That multi-phased sermon is the final message printed in this book. Part of the leadership transition during the festival included a sermon by Dr. William Turner of Durham North Carolina, a person of significant influence in Rev. Brooks life and ministry. His sermon, entitled “A Prophet and a Shepherd,” was recorded and uploaded to the AoP YouTube channel, from which I personally transcribed and edited the text included in this book.
The core of this book is the preaching of the Young Preachers of the AoP at the festival. There were 120 who preached, including three who preached on the plenary platform (and whose sermons are included in that section of this book). Only 67 of these Young Preachers submitted their sermons in manuscript form for publication in this volume; in this way, they have added their voices to the most important on-going archive of what young Christian leaders are thinking and saying in the United States.
I have included as an introduction to this book the master class presentation by our festival director of music, Dr. Everett McCorvey. I personally transcribed and edited this text also from the video of the event now posted on our YouTube channel. At this same time, I dedicate this volume to Dr. McCorvey and his wonderful American Spiritual Ensemble. Since the 2012 festival in Louisville, Kentucky, McCorvey and his singers have been an integral part of our festivals, enriching our homiletic gatherings with their wonderful spirit, tremendous talent, and inspirational testimony. I direct you to their web site and encourage you to take every opportunity to hear them, love them, and sing with them. I surely have; and I appreciate more than I can say the friendship and gospel partnership that has been a blessing to me these seven years! It is worth noting that Dr. McCorvey also serves as director of the opera program at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky and as director of the National Chorale in New York City.
One of the most powerful elements of the National Festival of Young Preachers is the engagement these Young Preachers have with those who share their calling and commitment to gospel preaching but have been shaped by a very different ecclesial environment. Many come to our festivals from very closed religious contexts, and when they sit, and laugh, and eat, and pray, and listen, and talk with others at the Festival, they testify to the exhilarating experience of Christian fellowship that transcends doctrine, practice, and experience. In that context, I decided to include a sermon preached by a member of the AoP board of directors, Dr. Tory Baucum, pastor of the Truro Anglican Church in Falls Church, Virginia. He delivered this sermon in Canterbury Cathedral at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury as a way of bridging the divisions between Episcopal and Anglican communions in the United States.
I thank all those who helped put together this volume, especially festival manager Debbie Moody, Alan Hisle and his team of videographers, AoP president Ernest A. Brooks III, AoP donor (and proofreader) Debi England, Chalice Press editor Gail Stobaugh, artist Ike Moody, and all the Young Preachers who submitted their sermons for publication. The AoP itself, the National Festival, and this annual volume of sermons are collaborative efforts drawing together people who share a passion for young people and gospel preaching. It is a joy to serve with them in this great work. God bless us all, and God bless this wonderful work of identifying, networking, supporting, and inspiring young people in the call to gospel preaching.
Dwight A. Moody
St. Simons Island
Summer 2018


Introduction
Theology of Hymns: Some Important Questions

Everett McCorvey
I love coming to the National Festival of Young Preachers. I love to hear all the young people as they preach. Every time I leave I feel all is right with the world, that the world has hope. I don’t feel that sense of loss as I often do when watching the news or reading a newspaper. As you do what you are called to do, you contribute to this hopeful outlook. I hope we can get more young people to come this sort of event.
I grew up in both Methodist and Baptist traditions. My mother was a Methodist, and my dad was a Baptist. I went to church on Sunday morning at the top of the hill with the Methodists; then when that was over, I went to the bottom of the hill and spent the rest of Sunday with the Baptists. My dad was a deacon at First Baptist Church, Montgomery, whose pastor was Ralph David Abernathy. My childhood home was just a few blocks from where Martin Luther King, Jr. lived when he worked in Montgomery. I grew up in the 1960’s during the civil rights movement. We were very involved in the movement.
I remember as a child going to church and hearing great choirs that would come in support of the civil rights efforts: from Hampton University and Tuskegee Institute, which was just a short drive out of town. William Dawson, the great composer of spirituals and other works, was at Tuskegee, and he would bring his choirs to Montgomery. Martin Luther King, Jr. loved to sing. As you read his sermons, you note he references spirituals and uses them in his text, and sometimes he closes the sermon by quoting a spiritual. I remember, “Walk together children, don’t you get weary, there’s a great camp meeting in the promised land.” His wife was a singer and wanted to be an opera singer,