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Love Song, Week 2 — “Still The One”
September 12, 2014 0

Here’s the big question about this Sunday’s second episode of Love Song, a worship gathering we are calling “Still The One”: Are we talking about the Orleans version from the 70s? Or the more recent vintage by Shania Twain? There’s only one way to find out. Sunday.8:30.  10.  11:30.

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A Different Sort Of Multi-Site
September 11, 2014 2

Without much fanfare, Good Shepherd opened a new campus this week. Only it’s not at all what you think, all you multi-site church aficianados. It’s a campus lodged in the middle of a mobile home community. See, we’ve wanted to take seriously our mandate to invite all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ Read the full article…

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How Purpose Shapes Form In The Gospels
September 10, 2014 0

The Gospels of Luke and John are both clear in declaring their purpose. Luke thesis statement comes at the very beginning: Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and Read the full article…

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things That Strangely Warm My Heart
September 9, 2014 0

We Methodists have an odd phase: “a heart strangely warmed.” It comes from a seminal moment in John Wesley’s personal journal when he recounts a spiritual experience on Aldersgate Street in London in May of 1738: About a quarter before nine, while [a teacher on the book of Romans] was describing the change which God Read the full article…

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How Song Of Songs Got Its Library Card — Sermon Recap
September 8, 2014 0

The Song Of Song is scandalous. Misunderstood. Avoided. Operatic. Shockingly egalitarian. All of that and more.  And the book’s own history of inclusion and interpretation is one of the interesting of all Scriptural texts.  That’s why the introductory sermon in the Love Song series was one of the most fun that I have ever done. Read the full article…

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