Comments on: Check out https://headhearthand.org/blog/2018/04/16/check-out-1212/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Andy Stout https://headhearthand.org/blog/2018/04/16/check-out-1212/#comment-51030 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:51:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=28217#comment-51030 “Preaching without notes”??? How about preaching without brains! And what entitles this self-proclaimed “preacher” to preach? He worships a magic genie that was conceived by goat herders back in the Bronze Age, who scribbled their superstitious beliefs on goat skins that were hidden in dusty caves for centuries—which became known as the “Holy Bible”. I wonder if I were to hide a Harry Potter book in a cave: Maybe it would be discovered and taken seriously be humans living 2000 years from now. (We humans are pretty dumb, aren’t we?)

]]> By: Dan Phillips https://headhearthand.org/blog/2018/04/16/check-out-1212/#comment-50493 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:05:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=28217#comment-50493 Preaching without notes. Scary thought. I think that I’d feel I’d not done my work, and was being lazy or slapdash. Perhaps that’s because my earliest experience as a Christian was under a beloved, well-trained man who would indeed preach straight from the Greek NT, without notes, looking to the Spirit’s leading — and it was an absolute mess of free-association that very seldom had anything to do with the text.

That said, I love occasions where providence thrusts on me the need to preach without notes. Hard to describe in terms that any but another preacher would understand, but there is an immediacy in doing that, and a sense that this shows what I’ve actually got on the shelf, so to speak, without the benefit of careful work and reworking and massaging.

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