Your Gift is a New Life
This post is about a message I delivered in May 2018. At the end of every semester at Christ For The Nations Institute , select students who make 100 on their preaching final get to present on stage in front of the school. For the past 3 semesters, it has been so inspiring for me to hear students deliver powerful messages. I wanted to sign up for the Homiletics class but I chickened out. However, this semester I decided to go for it and not let fear hold me back. I'm so glad I did! Homiletics is the art and science of preaching. The delivery is the art and the preparation is the science. I have spoken in front of an audience a few times and I thought this class would give me additional pointers to what I already knew but I was wrong! Pastor Eric, my teacher, had me start from scratch and I was so challenged in the best way possible. Throughout the semester, we learned how to give a sermon and for our final, we had to present a 10 minute message. If we scored 100 on