hanadr said:
Ian,
send your vicar to our rural dean, who has said that if you can't get the point of the sermon over in 5 minutes, you are losing your audience. Perhaps if you give him/her some coffee, the sermon would be over too fast for anyone to fall asleep. For myself, I try for a good night's worth and try to keep warm.
Have you read Hardy's "Under the Greenwood Tree?" Where the choir takes hot brandy to keep warm, & all fall asleep during the sermon. When they wake up they start playing a dance tune from the Saturday night
My sermons last about half an hour, which I think is enough. We need to explain the Scriptures in context & apply their teaching to the congregation. I use 45 minute tapes in the hope that the end-of-tape click will send a message to the other preachers. I take notes & sip water to help maintain concentration.
Chez said:
Take 10 mins in the sunshine, ( If you can find any ) or a little walk :lol:
A walk stimulates the body and elevates the adrenaline & stimulates your endorphins
Good idea, Chez, but I think I might be noticed
Only parents of young children are allowed that privilege.
I woke any sleepers up last Sunday, preaching on the feeding of 5,000.
Jhn 6:15 Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king... I sang a fragment of "There lived a king" from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Gondoliers."
"Now that's the kind of king for me,
He wished all men as rich as he,
so to the top of every tree
promoted everybody."
Seriously, better BG control has improved my sleepiness considerably.