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Fishers of People
Posted in Church, Church Growth, Community, Jesus, Meme, ministry, Mission, Spiritual Growth
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Making the Right Mistakes
The great jazz musician Thelonious Monk once told one of his sidemen, “You’re making all the wrong mistakes!” Monk was known as musician who did things differently, who played with a kind of dissonance that sounded like he was making … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Compassion, Jazz, ministry, Mission, Musings, Pastoral Ministry, Social Ministry, spirituality, Thelonious Monk
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Pastors: Eugene Peterson
To avoid being swept along by the winds of change and conducting a ministry which is mostly improvisation, one must stubbornly one’s heels into the ground. —Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Care More than once I have told people … Continue reading
Leading From Below
An old friend of mine, Joe Moran, took his son to a Catholic worship service when he was visiting his family in New York State. Joe was a former priest, and his family was very Catholic. After Joe left … Continue reading
What Does God Care About?
Posted in Church, Church Growth, Jesus, Meme, ministry, Mission, Presbyterian, Spiritual Growth, spirituality, Worship
Tagged Christian, Christianity, church, Church Growth, God, ministry, Relationships, spirituality, Worship
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Diner Theology
I love eating in diners. You how to tell if you are in a good diner? Your coffee cup is never empty. There is always a waitress coming by to fill it. You get to half a cup and this … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Compassion, Jesus, ministry, Mission, Musings, Poor, Social Justice, Social Ministry, Spiritual Growth, spirituality, Wealth
Tagged Christian Service, Diners, Good News, Good News for the Poor, ministry, Oppressed, Poor, Social Justice, Social Ministry, Spiritual Growth, Urban Ministry
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There’s No Place Like….Where’s Toto?
We are almost at the end of our journey on the Yellow Brick Road. Today we will learn how Toto, the mythic Trickster, helps Dorothy see what life is all about. Romans 8:28-30 28We know that all things … Continue reading
The Beams of New Oxford Hall
I love a good story, and this is one of my favorites. I first read it in Stewart Brand’s The Next Whole Earth Catalog. It was told to him by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. New College, Oxford, is of rather … Continue reading
If I Only Had a Brain
Third in a series of sermons on the Wizard of Oz. This week we are looking at the Scarecrow, and the need to be thinking Christians. I was a young Christian, trying to figure things out, and I was … Continue reading
Queer Eye for the Christian Guy
When I gave my life to Christ in 1975 there was a lot of clean up I had to do to follow God the way I really wanted to. I invited Christ into my life, and the next thing I … Continue reading
From the Still Point 