I've had the disconcerting experience, twice in the last week, of reading my own writing in a resource and not immediately remembering that I wrote it. I'm asked occasionally to contribute stuff to resources that our denominational publishing house Augsburg Fortress puts out, and the lead time is usually long enough that I forget about it before it's time for me to actually use it in my own congregational work. In one case, I was pleasantly surprised: "This is pretty cool!" In the other, I got no practical ideas at all from what PF of two years ago wrote. Very strange.
Occasionally I've wondered if any of my sermons would be worth collecting into publish-able form, and if anyone would read them. But here are two things that I actually did write for publication, and I'm not so sure their shelf life is all that good.
