Have you ever wondered where sermons come from? I have. Especially when I first entered the ministry. I had an idea what I was going to preach about next Sunday, and a pretty good idea of what I would like to say a week from next Sunday; but I wondered: what on earth I would find to preach about five, ten, fifteen or twenty years down the road? Fortunately, thanks to the limitless resources available in the Holy Scripture, I never ran out of sermon topics in forty years of parish ministry, but the whole thing is still a mystery to me. Now that I am sort of "retired," and find myself giving more lectures than sermons, I like to kid my friends in academia, telling them that they really "have it made." When they write a lecture, they can keep on giving that same lecture for years. If it doesn…