2025 Water Advance: March 7-8, 2025
Where: The Salish Seaside Escapes
327 Sunset Avenue
Eastsound, WA 98245
Cost: $500 per person or $950 per couple.
This fee includes 6 meals for the 2 days. You are responsible for your own lodging.
Speaker: Ken Ulmer
Our next Water Advance is a first: We have “recalled” an earlier conversation partner for a second visit. Partly at the request of Tia Sweet, and partly because he is my favorite preacher in North America (I dedicated to him my textbook on preaching Giving Blood), we have asked Ken Ulmer to rejoin us to talk about the state of preaching today, as well as to share his thoughts about transitioning ministry after leaving a church one has served for over 40 years. Is there ministry after “retirement.”
Preaching is an oral art, and Ken Ulmer is a master of homiletic orality. The problem with reading from a manuscript is that written words are solidly grounded on the page, weighted with carved precision, while face-to-face speaking Ken Ulmer style flies on the wings of its utterance with an immediacy, intimacy and spontaneity that is airy, light and strangely moving no matter how ragged and jagged compared to manuscript preaching. I have seldom soared so high in the Spirit than experiencing a live Ken Ulmer sermon, and I have heard them all over the world. (Ask me about Latvia!)
Another reason for inviting Ulmer back? “We shall preach to no purpose unless we have a purpose in preaching.” So said Robert William Dale (1829-1895) in Yale’s Beecher Lectures (1890). And every Ken Ulmer sermons reveals the “purpose of preaching?” Lift up Christ.
Information about Orcas Island can be found at: www.guidetosanjuans.com
If you are flying you will want to fly into SeaTac Airport in Seattle. From there
you can either rent a car and drive or you can fly on Kenmore Air to East Sound
(Orcas Island).
Ferry Information: You will take the ferry from Anacortes to Orcas
Kenmore Air Information
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