More Than a Feeling: Grounding God’s Voice in God’s Word
While the service's liturgical elements were sound, the sermon itself was homiletically weak. It operated pretextually, using a personal travelogue as its primary structure rather than the biblical text. The repeated emphasis on a 'still-speaking God,' without explicitly grounding this voice in the closed canon of Scripture, creates a significant theological vulnerability. Furthermore, the New Testament passage read (Matthew 3) was left entirely un-preached, missing a critical opportunity to connect the Old Testament text to Christ.