Corinne Broughton, Rebecca Coatsworth, Lydia Lee and Esther Longe will preach in front of a live audience and the viewers of BBC’s The One Show on Thursday 21st June.
The London School of Theology and Preach magazine are running the competition and require sermons to be no more than 1500 words and based on the theme ‘Be Set Free’.
Preachers from 19 to 83 years old entered and for a third of entrants it was the first sermon they had ever written.
Rebecca Coatsworth, a writer for a Christian charity said: “I got the email telling me I was a finalist at the end of my lunch break at work. I saw the subject line and started freaking out; I absolutely could not believe it! There were tears – happy tears!
“Honestly I am both incredibly nervous and incredibly excited for this event. I feel 100 per cent inadequate and totally out of my comfort zone, which terrifies me, but if God can use my sermon to speak to just one person (even if that person is me!) it will be worth it.”
Rebecca Coatsworth
Finalist Corinne Broughton, who is studying Theology in London, said: “I had entered the competition because I really believe God is growing the gift of speaking and writing in me, but I never considered that I would stand a chance of winning the competition. It really is an amazing opportunity to be published in the book. Also, for the…
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