From my newsletter, The Amalgamation — The Night My Brain Caught on Fire: Trusting the Spirit when you have no choice, but to trust the Spirit. Excerpt — There I was, about to get up and deliver a sermon in front of 2500 youth and adults, when my brain caught on fire. First, a little background. For those who have not been in church for a minute, generally before the preacher gets up, someone reads a selection or two from the Bible. Ideally, the preacher has wrestled with those texts, honored the community's cultural realities, and considered the day's current context, all in the hope of delivering a message that conveys an understanding of who God intends for that community to be and become. Make no mistake, this is a daunting task, no matter how many people are in the congregation, but when there are thousands of high schoolers, it's downright terrifying. So that was the charge and the setting. I was about to preach a sermon, and when the reader started reading the first scriptur...