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Sermon: Beautiful Acts for God (Mark 14)

April 5, 2015 / Palitha Jayasooriya / 6 Comments

Sermon on Mark 14:1-9 (Jesus anointed by a sinful woman in Bethany)

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Introduction

There is a story of a child who was slow in learning and did poorly in her first grade in school. However, when she started grade 2, her grades started to improve dramatically. The reason: her new teacher, on the first day of school, would call every student close to her and whisper something nice into their ear. When this particular child came up to the teacher, she apparently whispered into the child’s ear, “I wish I had a child like you”. That beautiful thought had a huge impact on the child and it reflected in her studies from there on!

Sermon: The Tragic Side of a Triumphant Event ( A Sermon for Palm Sunday -Luke 19)

March 4, 2015 / Palitha Jayasooriya / 0 Comments

Palm Sunday Sermon: The tragic side of a triumphant event

Introduction

I read a story about a plainly dressed man who went into a church in the Netherlands one Sunday and took a seat near the pulpit. Soon a woman came along and curtly told the man that he was seated in ‘her seat’. She then asked him to leave the seat. The man apologized and apparently moved away to a pew reserved for the poor, from where he took part in the service.

The Sermon is the Preacher’s Responsibility

February 21, 2015 / Palitha Jayasooriya / 2 Comments

Picture of a Preacher Preparing His Sermon.

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I have been preaching the amazing Word of God for over 25 years and still love doing it. During that time, I have preached many sermons, some of which went off very well, others that were fairly good and many that failed badly (at least that’s what I think!). In this article, I want to focus on the sermons that didn’t do too well. At such times when I have known that the sermon didn’t go off well, I used to look for excuses to justify a bad presentation. Here are some of the excuses I have given.