Apology

It has been pointed out to me in personal correspondence that it might be wrong to apologise or seem to apologise (in the sense of say sorry) for the Word of God. We should not apologise for our sermons since (in so far as it is faithful) the preached Word is the Word of God. So I'm sorry about that.

If my sermon is rubbish or wrong, I'm sorry about that, but that's not my intention. I wouldn't preach it if I thought it was a waste of my time and yours.

And I'm not sorry for going on as long as I need too. Preaching and listening is the most important thing (amongst other things) that we could be doing for 20 or 30 mins on a Sunday morning. Sorry!