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Alan Cresswell
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Earlier in the summer I was preaching, with a radio mike and also a mike on the lectern (we don't have a pulpit, so I usually preach from there). Someone had changed the batteries in the mikes and my opening words boomed around the church, so I moved the mike further down my jacket. But, when I got up to preach the combination of both mikes and proximity to one of the speakers was a bad combination. I made some lame joke about it being good to be heard, but there's such a thing as too much of a good thing, and switched the mikes off.
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Adam.
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We were told by our sound engineer to always turn our radio mike off when we came to the ambo (which had its own mike).
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Al Eluia
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
I do wish that Scripture readers - who may not do it all that often - rehearsed their lessons more frequently. And that they didn't bring up to the lectern a tiny Bible with miniscule text they can't follow and thin pages they can't turn, rather than using the one that's already there and open at the right page!
Even better - get them to come to church with their reading printed out, in a suitably large font. It takes 5 minutes, maximum, these days. We have a couple of people who do that and they always know what they are saying and are clear and "listenable".
The Lectionary Page is your friend!
The Lectionary Page
Re the original post: I will be preaching in a few weeks (I'm a lay person in the very beginning stages of a "discernment" process) and am definitely relying on a written text. But I'm pretty good at reading with feeling and liveliness.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Originally posted by Al Eluia:
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
I do wish that Scripture readers - who may not do it all that often - rehearsed their lessons more frequently. And that they didn't bring up to the lectern a tiny Bible with miniscule text they can't follow and thin pages they can't turn, rather than using the one that's already there and open at the right page!
Even better - get them to come to church with their reading printed out, in a suitably large font. It takes 5 minutes, maximum, these days. We have a couple of people who do that and they always know what they are saying and are clear and "listenable".
The Lectionary Page is your friend!
The Lectionary Page
I would usually use textweek.com as it provides links to a range of sites (Bible gateway, etc) so you can pick the translation (presumably to that of the pew Bibles, whichever version the preacher is expecting). But, there is no real excuse for not being able to get the text printed in advance, and rehearsed a bit too.
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Alan Cresswell
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Which then requires you to enter the passages ... as I said, textweek (and probably other places) take you straight to the right text within Biblegateway (or other similar online Bible sites). Which can save the problems of a slip of the fingers which meant that a couple of years ago I'd prepared a sermon on the lectionary epistle of 2 Timothy 2:3-15, and heard 1 Timothy 2:3-15 read, and noticed the indrawn breath in the congregation when it got to "I want women to dress modestly ... A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach". That was an interesting morning.
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LeRoc
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I like textweek for its easy links to exegetic material too. I'm not a preacher but my travelling lifestyle forces me to miss church often. Through textweek, I can at least read interesting things about this week's lecture.
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