Topical Preaching

Last night I had a dream. It was Sunday morning and I was at an unfamiliar church. As the worship set was ending I was informed that I would be preaching the sermon. I was scared, but confident that the Lord would guide me through a text.

But then I was given a topic: repentance.

I got to the pulpit and fumbled through Scripture, trying to find something on repentance. For the longest time I just stood there, looking at my Bible. Then I decided to go to Nehemiah. I guess it kind of works, but preaching a sermon on repentance using Nehemiah as your supporting text seems like a stretch, or at least is not my first choice in consciousness.

I think I just had a nightmare about topical preaching.