The first time our pastor, Kim, asked me to “preach” at a Sunday worship service last August I thought she was pulling my leg and responded, “I’m a psychologist, we don’t preach [not much at least].” She laughed and said, “Tell stories about your faith and being a reluctant but tenacious disciple.”
I agreed with much trepidation.
The congregation and I survived, maybe prospered a bit too.
This video link will bring you to the second time, on Memorial Day Weekend of this year, when I stood behind the pulpit at the North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church. This time instead of stories I titled the message: “Believing the Unbelievable.”
I have tremendous respect for the effort and commitment dedicated pastors like Kim give to the arduous, awesome, challenging, and wonderful experience of crafting some ideas, fact and faith-based alike, to assist people in discovering the holy in each of us.
“Believing the Unbelievable” by Roger Marum from Theodore Marcy on Vimeo.
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No sound, only video. Do I need to get the Vimeo app to hear this?
Bette,
Good question, and I don’t know. Let me check into this. I mail the same e-mail to myself that you received and I have sound, but do not have the Vimeo app.
Roger
I believed in the unbelievable and suddenly there was sound….lovely sermon, Roger….well said.
Bette,
Thank you, and amazing how the unbelievable can become believable. Martha Graham was spot-on [my interpretation] when she said that we must keep changing our process, believing in the unbelievable, fooling that which tries to fool us and reaching into the mysterious. I’m in good company with you and hosts of others, thank you.
Roger
I have sound as well.
Mary,
Alexander Bell to Thomas Watson in 1876 [in present day] “I have sound as well.” The challenges of electronic devices, apps, and all the accoutrements thereof, often leave those of us from previous generations baffled–me at the top of the list–but we’ll get it.
Thanks for the comment,
Roger
Such a sweet treat to be able to see and hear you preach about believing the unbelievable. Your words conveyed your message and your faith. Your presentation showed us your humanness. Pastor Kim is wise to ask you to speak to your congregation, sharing your thoughts and making connections between biblical stories and more contemporary writers and poets. You have given me inspiration and encouragement to write and read my own story, “mapping my faith journey,”
an exercise our minister, Cathlin, offers to members of our church community here. I loved hearing the young child calling out a couple of amens in the midst of your talk. It seems undeniable to me that God is everywhere among us in this precious miracle of life. May you continue to seek, write, share, and preach on, mon ami.
Colette,
Thank you for reading, sharing your own “mapping my faith journey,” and your kind words of encouragement. Hearing the young child elicited a silent ‘amen’ from me each of the times the cry echoed through the sanctuary. Wonderful how we can inspire one another, not the least of which is “out of the mouths of babes.”
Roger