6/8/2025 A Mighty Wind

Recently, Pastor Andy Cooke said he watched A Complete Unknown, the movie about Bob Dylan that was released last year. Near the end of the movie, he is performing at the Newport Folk Festival and playing his new songs with an electric guitar rather than his old folk songs on an acoustic guitar. The audience revolts and starts throwing trash on the stage! They want the songs that they know and love, not the new ones.

Pastor Andy says he's often lamented the fact that this is reversed for preachers. People want something new rather than a sermon that they appreciated from long ago. During the month of June, we're experimenting with a reversal of this mindset. This Sunday is the second week of our "Greatest Hits" sermon series during which Katelyn and I will (re)preach some favorite sermons that we've preached during our time at Covenant. This Sunday will be an adaptation of the Pentecost sermon that I preached on June 9, 2019.