Originally preached at Dagnall Street Baptist Church on Sunday 27 July 2014 by Philip Palmer.
The third in a series of "Questions people ask."
http://www.stalbansliteraryfestival.co.uk/podcasts/dsbc/DSBC20140728am.mp3
Monday 28 July 2014
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Will anyone love me? Sunday 20th July 2014
The second in a series of sermons: "Questions people ask".
Originally preached at Dagnall Street Baptist Church 20th July 2014 by Simon Carver
http://www.stalbansliteraryfestival.co.uk/podcasts/dsbc/dsbc20140720.mp3
Originally preached at Dagnall Street Baptist Church 20th July 2014 by Simon Carver
http://www.stalbansliteraryfestival.co.uk/podcasts/dsbc/dsbc20140720.mp3
Saturday 19 July 2014
Appeasing the Masterchef gods - will John and Gregg love me?
Having not watched any of the previous episodes, I turned on the TV last night and Celebrity Masterchef was on. It was the Final and the last cooks standing were two people I didn't recognise, and Jodie Kidd. I hadn't realised quite how tall Ms Kidd is. Normally she would be among others of her exceptionally tall species, but alongside normal people ... The contestants had one task which was to cook a three course meal of their own choosing in two and half hours. Gregg Wallace and John Torode, the presenters and judges of the show wandered around the cooks' tables, making encouraging noises, but rolling their eyes behind the contestants' back. And then they were done.
One by one the contestants brought up the products of their labours. There is an unfairness inherent in this process in that the last person to come forward, has had their food cooling and congealing on the plates for several minutes before it gets prodded and tasted. If my mother was a judge she would mark it down purely on the basis that it would fail to take the skin off the roof of her mouth.
While I have sat through many Masterchef episodes, I had never before noticed the similarity between the way that the food is judged and the offering up of Ann Darrow to King Kong. This is not a sly dig at Gregg Wallace's pre-diet physique, rather it is a based on the attitude of the contestants. As they lay out the food, their faces show that they are beseeching the gods, "Please like my food. Please love me."
This blog is really an effort not to waste a thought that I'm not going to be able to fit into a sermon which is part of a series of "Questions that people ask". This arose from the idea that the Church is often answering questions that people aren't asking and that if it is answering those questions, it is not very good at letting people know. This week's topic is, "Will anyone love me?"
The Masterchef contestants demonstrate very visually the desire that is in all of us to know love. That love come from a person, but it may come from being in a place, or returning to a place. As Mad Men's Don Draper once said:
Round and a round, and back home again. To a place where we know we are loved.
If you want to know more, let me know.
One by one the contestants brought up the products of their labours. There is an unfairness inherent in this process in that the last person to come forward, has had their food cooling and congealing on the plates for several minutes before it gets prodded and tasted. If my mother was a judge she would mark it down purely on the basis that it would fail to take the skin off the roof of her mouth.
While I have sat through many Masterchef episodes, I had never before noticed the similarity between the way that the food is judged and the offering up of Ann Darrow to King Kong. This is not a sly dig at Gregg Wallace's pre-diet physique, rather it is a based on the attitude of the contestants. As they lay out the food, their faces show that they are beseeching the gods, "Please like my food. Please love me."
This blog is really an effort not to waste a thought that I'm not going to be able to fit into a sermon which is part of a series of "Questions that people ask". This arose from the idea that the Church is often answering questions that people aren't asking and that if it is answering those questions, it is not very good at letting people know. This week's topic is, "Will anyone love me?"
The Masterchef contestants demonstrate very visually the desire that is in all of us to know love. That love come from a person, but it may come from being in a place, or returning to a place. As Mad Men's Don Draper once said:
Round and a round, and back home again. To a place where we know we are loved.
If you want to know more, let me know.
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