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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Anger Management Graduate School; Loving Your Enemies as the Way to Health
The call to love our enemies is not just a platitude to make Christianity look good; it is a practical way to live, especially if our worst enemy is ourselves! GOSPEL MATTHEW 5:38-48 38“You have heard that it was … Continue reading
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Jesus Is Not Jeeves; Time To Do Away With Divine Personal Savior and Personal Valets
Reach out and touch faith Your own Personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Your own Personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who’s there –Depeche Mode, Personal Jesus I grew up in a tradition where people were encouraged to accept Jesus … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, church, Depeche Mode, discipleship, Jesus, Personal Savior, Sermon on the Mount
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GOSPEL MATTHEW 5:21-37 21“You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not murder’; and ‘whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother … Continue reading
Keeping Love Alive
Valentine’s Day, or as they say on Wall Street, Hallmark Day. I woke up this morning to a mobile made by The Redhead, with about twenty-five hearts, and each one had on it something we loves about me, or our … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Marriage, Valentines Day
Tagged Love, Marriage, Tom Robbins, Valentine's Day
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A Time to Be Weaned
Why is it that we argue about things we cannot change? For example, recently there was a debate between a young earth creationist, and Bill Nye the Science Guy, which was apparently broadcast around the nation. (Full disclosure: I did … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity and Homosexuality, Church, Emergent Church, Jesus, ministry, religion and politics, spirituality
Tagged Christian Unity, church, Creationism, Evolution, Jesus, Paul, spirituality
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Live Salty
GOSPEL MATTHEW 5:13-20 13“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. 14“You … Continue reading
Trying to Stand in Fallen World
One of my favorite songwriters is Pierce Pettis, and one of my favorite songs of his is “Trying to Stand in a Fallen World.” If that does not describe the Christian life today, I don’t know what does. … Continue reading
Here Be Dragons
Let me go back to Friedman (and to the early explorers) again. He said that when those explorers headed south to try to fine a new way to China, they hit the end of the world. Not the actual end … Continue reading
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Tagged church, Emergent Church, Presbyterian, spirituality
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Bad Questions Make For Bad Answers
Since the late 1980s, the Presbyterian Church has been asking, “Should we include LGBT people in our congregation, and to what extent?” Perhaps that has been exactly the wrong question, because since the late 1908s the Presbyterian Church has been … Continue reading
MICAH 6:1-8 1 Hear what the LORD says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has … Continue reading