Something New!

Yesterday was Sunday and I began a short series of sermons.  After I had finished the first sermon of this series, one of my audience came to me with the remark: “Well, dominee, I have heard sermons on this passage of Scripture before by dominee so and so and also by dominee so and so: but the thing that strikes me is that it’s new again.” This remark got me to thinking.  Not so much, you see, about what could possibly be new in that sermon I preached, but about the state of mind of that...