I have been wrestling recently with the different roles that I have played in the different sermon series of 2013. Not that I have been different people or that I am merely acting a part. It’s just that different series demand distinct aspects of the pastoral calling. This may be old news to you, but Read the full article…
Monday’s post gave the background for and manuscript of Sunday’s sermon called Conceived By The Holy Spirit, Born Of The Virgin Mary. The hook, as you may recall, was Luke’s slightly sarcastic, thoroughly in-your-face comment: “He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph.” So on Tuesday a friend of mine who is an engineer Read the full article…
Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) And true to form, Jesus doesn’t answer the question. He leaves it hanging there, still to be wrestled with 2,000 years later. In the world of church, truth matters. A lot. We try to decipher it so we then can proclaim it. And the chilling thing Read the full article…
Yesterday’s exploration of third line of the Apostles’ Creed — Conceived By The Holy Spirit, Born Of The Virgin Mary — jumped off of four simple words from Luke 3:23: So it was thought. I was first alerted to the significance of those four words in a though-provoking blog post from one of the area’s Read the full article…
One of the ways we measure how well we are inviting all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ is through what we call serving in love. The more people who adopt a servant life-style — fostered by but not limited to church-related projects — then the more we sense folks are coming to life Read the full article…
