Today we took the kids out on the lake. I took off on the waverunner, turned my head to make sure that noone was too close to me so that I could make a quick turn, and my glasses flew off and sunk (sank?). Now everything is blurry. I have a set of contacts that are a year old. I need them to last 4 days. Monday I'm heading out of town back to Knoxville. I'll be back late Tuesday. Hopefully I can get to the eye doctor Wednesday.
I completed another CLEP this week. Oh yeah. I'm down to 3 classes left for college. I will hopefully be knocking one of those out with a CLEP in a couple of weeks.
From looking at the syllabi's for my 2 classes that start Monday, it looks as though I'm about to be really busy for the next few weeks, in addition to all of the other stuff in "life" that's going on. There's lots of travel coming up. September is going to be busy!
I'm sick of people stealing sermons. I know guys that are church planters doing it. I know guys who are "established" pastors that are doing it.
I don't care what style you are. I don't care how much you do in your community or how good your heart or intentions are. If you take someone elses material and present it as your own, you are being dishonest and God doesn't honor a lack of integrity. Our ministries will always be limited if we lack integrity, not just morally, but in our teaching and preaching as well.
I've seen a lot of stuff this year as I've been with Pastor Johnny. I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly. I'll be a better man and minister if I remember these lessons, mistakes and errors of others and avoid them!
I'm getting ready to preach next Sunday night at Woodstock for the 6:00 service. I have my text picked out finally, so it's time to put the message together (my own message).
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After talking about the plagerism issue I decided to look up what plagerism is. Anytime you use anyone's thought processes or materials at anytime as your own with giving due credit that's plagerism. I suppose the question cane be two fold
1. when the people that create the material want and allow others to use it freely without permission. It would be ok in that instance because you have the right to use it.
2. The negative side is if you're always using other people's stuff. I realize to some degree we are a compilation of other people's stuff, but as a teacher and pastor there comes a time when your priority should be hearing from God for the people that He has allowed you to touch. I think that youth pastor's borrow other's stuff a lot. Music people always borrow stuff (ccli has saved the day for us! You have to pay though) I've heard it said that if the bullet fits your gun than go ahead and use it. If you just preached a sermon that you got from someone else than give the guy credit for it. There's nothing wrong with saying "this word that _______ gave changed my life and I want to share it with you." If it's blantant plagerism than it's wrong, but if it's a good word that touched your life than give the person credit for it.
Spurgeon preached from an overflow of God's life in him. I prefer that!
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