00:00hi guys it's me yaya diamond what's up people you guys heard it from him from the mouth himself
00:20it's his mouth saying he's here with me today i want to welcome roland to money to the show
00:25let me tell you something he wrote a book and i have the book right here it's called sermons
00:29with insight and let me tell you something i i'm ready to hear what he's got to say welcome to the
00:34show thank you so much for joining us well i'm glad i have the opportunity i'm glad you got here
00:41oh i am so happy that you're here thank you so much again so i you know i i absolutely love that
00:47people write books i'm an absolute book like connoisseur i like audio books i like physical
00:55books i like i love books i think and you have a book and it's called sermons with insight and i
01:01wanted to find out first of all why you wrote this book what was it that prompted you to go ahead and
01:09write this book well you're asking a reasonable question but you know it really it was a collection
01:16of sermons over a number of years i i i preached sermons uh many of them were written out i thought
01:25these are pretty good sermons i got some comments from the congregation that endorsed the fact that
01:31they were pretty good sermons so i thought why not put them together in a collection of sermons
01:36and that's what it's called sermons with insight and it's just you know a collection of sermons for
01:43different times of the church year um so um that's that's what you get wow so the word insight in the
01:52in the title suggested like a deep spiritual insight or concept of preaching you know and and why is it
01:59essential for modern listeners today i mean what is it that we're going to get from this each sermon
02:04will be different um readers would would get depending upon whether the sermon deals with
02:12something that they're interested in or involved with you know they'll they'll get some thoughts
02:17about how to deal with it or why it needs to be dealt with in a certain way it's not something that
02:24i can generalize on because there are you know lots of different sermons i gotcha i gotcha so these are
02:30your sermons am i correct oh yes sweetness sweetness so what prompts you to do a sermon what is it an
02:37inspiration from what um is going on in the world is it something that you figure your your uh maybe
02:43your congregation is going through oh well what prompts me to do it is because i'm a pastor of a
02:48church and i've got to get a give a sermon every sunday and so what what the sermon deals with is usually
02:55the assigned scripture readings for the sunday and in in lutherans you get three different choices for
03:01that so i put together something that i think is appropriate uh for for my congregation at that
03:10particular time that's sweet that's good so there's like because i'm not lutheran so i don't know i mean
03:15you know so you have a an assigned sermon every sunday that you have to do or you have to speak on is that
03:22kind of cool to actually have that do you get through the bible do you get through the entire
03:27scriptures in one year and you mean is there something new every single time uh yeah so
03:34something new every single time um the assignments don't get me through all of this all of the scripture
03:42in a year but you know that that doesn't matter we we get through a lot both as i said in in old
03:48testament and new testament categories you know i figured i figured out that you know preachers and
03:55pastors are very special people very special they have a heart for their congregation they have a heart
04:01for the people that come in and and literally their heart bleeds for them like they want them
04:06to be the best to have the best in life so are your sermons geared towards like maybe spiritual
04:12enlightenment spiritual advancement um and and people to maybe reach a different level of
04:19spirituality that they're not they're not at today yes awesome awesome so tell me like what is it that
04:29you really want for your congregation that's in this book that i know you can't generalize it but
04:35there's got to be some kind of a connection between all of these sermons in your book like where is it
04:41going for people no i i i i can't answer that way i don't think it goes for people in the same way
04:51different people read read the book uh it applies you know different sermons apply to them under their
04:57circumstances in life and uh hopefully it it directs them at that particular time in those particular
05:06instances of their life um maybe how to think about it or how to how to move in a better direction
05:14but that's that's about all i could say no and you know i understand i totally get it because like
05:21you varied it so good and so much that everybody can get something from from it at varying points of
05:31their lives of their circumstances but what touched you the most which one of these sermons is your
05:38favorite that touched you the most i i can't answer that i don't know that i have a favorite sermon
05:47i gotcha i gotcha but they're all important so tell me like what was your process by putting this
05:53together because how many years have you been doing this you know i can't say for sure how many years
05:58years the sermons in the book cover there was more than one year that i let me throw out the number
06:0610 years or so wow over the time i was a minister at the church and put together this book of what i
06:15considered the best sermons i had during that time period that is so cool that's so that you saved
06:22you you saved these sermons and you wrote them down and you put them in the book over a 10-year period
06:29do you know how much dedication that takes to actually do that i mean what was your process of
06:35choosing i mean choosing the best sermons was it because you wanted them to vary or you wanted
06:40them to interlap i mean what was the choice well i'm not sure that i was choosing the best ones i was
06:47choosing the the one that applied to a particular uh time in the church year um and if if i had
07:01maybe two or three for that particular time in the church year um you know i'd pick what i considered
07:09to be the best one right right that is so cool i mean scriptures can be so helpful guiding and and
07:20loving and and and you know sending in peace and direction what what do you want people to come
07:30from this book if they were to get this book today and read this book what would you really want for
07:35them what what's the ultimate goal for them to benefit from the insights that they might get from
07:42the book and and you know that would vary you know from i i i want to say from chapter to chapter
07:52specifically from sermon to sermon sometimes they would be useful sermons to them other times it wouldn't
07:57be you know how do you prepare that sermon how did you how did you prepare that sermon like what did
08:04you do to put those sermons together when you were doing it at that time like not now to put the book
08:10together but like okay you're getting ready to preach you're getting ready to do this what was that
08:14process for you to look at the pieces of scripture and i you know i i have a choice between old testament
08:23epistles and gospels um to look at what was assigned for that particular sunday
08:31and then to decide which seemed to apply most directly to something going on in the life of
08:37the congregation or the life of the world that would would make the sermon appropriate to
08:44those circumstances and that's the one i would pick that is dr i think that is so cool that a lot of
08:51people they think oh yeah there's the prosperity gospel or it's this or it's that but you didn't do that
08:57what you did was you thought about the people in your congregation and you went for the best thing
09:03to uplift your congregation to give them something in their time of need that was that's just beautiful
09:08i think that's that's more loving to me than anything anybody else can say and i appreciate
09:14that what kind of advice do you give to the youth to the people today in this world that need that you
09:21know scriptures that need these sermons what what would you say to them well say to them about about
09:29the sermon no about the book i mean what would you say like something from like what would be the one
09:35thing that what kind of advice would you give them uh you know for life today like from one of your
09:41sermons or even from the book what would be the essential thing that you could tell them today
09:47find in in the book what applies to what's going on in the world today and and how it would
09:57how the sermon would would help to improve how people are behaving today right i got you and what
10:05advice would you give to young pastors or seminary students who aspire to preach
10:10with both conviction and insight like you do take the scripture passages seriously
10:15and then think seriously and then think seriously of how realizing that they came from a a distant time
10:24in the past how they would how at least one of them would apply to what's going on in the world today
10:31and how it make might make the world better if people did what the the scripture passage sort of urged
10:39them to do yeah i got you i got you where people find you where can people engage with you well i
10:46didn't quite understand your question so like um where would people find you where would people find the
10:51book um to maybe purchase the book or even like go and find the book and and do you have like a facebook
10:57page or someplace where people can engage with you is it on amazon or is it on barnes and nobles is it
11:05online for purchase oh yes it is it is on those places awesome awesome so we're going to put the
11:12link in the description box so that people can actually find it that is a good thing that is
11:16a good thing i want to thank you so much roland for being on the show also you guys need to go ahead
11:21and check this out because listen you know the scriptures can be amazing and they can help you so
11:26very much and i and i know that he has put his heart and soul into sermons with insight for you
11:33and these sermons they like he said they really can't be like nitpicks you just gotta do and and
11:40read it and see which one applies to you at any given time and i want to thank you mr zemini for being
11:45in the show thank you so much
12:00thank you for watching
12:15thank you
12:46well i'm glad you invited me i'm glad you're here and thank you guys so much for tuning in hey
12:51wherever this is on the top the sides the bottom we're going to put that information for him
12:56in his book so that you guys can go and check it out for yourselves i want to thank you guys so much
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