What do you do with your sermons after you have preached them?

I once read that one of the Reformers used to destroy his sermons after preaching them. He was convinced that the sermons were for a particular people at a particular time.

Now this is a bit more complicated for us in the digital world, when we often have a paper copy of our sermon, a digital word processing document and perhaps even an audio recording. I’m not sure if we can (or should) destroy them all.

But I like the idea.

Let it go. 

Whether you rocked it on Easter Sunday or whether your sermon was a duct-taped piece of crap.

Let it go.

You preached it. Now let the Holy Spirit do the hard work of changing hearts and lives.