Tag: church
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Fear is the Killer
Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David and warned him,“My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there. I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are.…
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Peace and War: Son of Jesse
Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, just as Jesse had directed him. And he reached the encampment as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines, army against army. Then…
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Lessons Learned
Sermon based on text from Luke 14:1, 7-14 And it came to pass that Jesus was going to the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the sabbath to break bread, and they all were watching him closely. He began to tell a parable to those who had been invited, remarking how…
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Dinosaur Bones
You gotta love a good metaphor. The other day, I was sitting with some clergy colleagues and we were talking about the role of the pastor. What, we wondered, is the pastor’s real job? Sure, they are supposed to preach, to teach, to visit the sick, to shepherd the flock, to die on the cross demonstrate self-sacrifice,…
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Lawdy Lawdy!
Gawrsh it’s been a while…I got myself lost in the Lent-Easter vortex and am only now starting to pull myself out… didn’t help that I also became not a little bit attached to watching television on the web–I am officially caught up on more shows than I care to admit. But seriously, it has been…
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further thoughts…
Questions that have been on my mind: what is the purpose of church? is it the same or different from the purpose of Christ? what does it mean, I mean, REALLY MEAN, to serve? what is, really, salvation? Is it possible to, as many churches would have you believe and do, save other…
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Off to SF we go.
Yesterday morning I suckered my ‘rents and my bro into driving up to San Francisco with me to scope out Mission Bay Community Church (I billed it as an “excellent family bonding opportunity” in “sunny SF,” which was incidentally far enough away from the Santa Cruz fires that the air didn’t smell like a campfire…
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When Email fails; blog.
Who knew that in this day and age of dependence on email, that email might actually fail me? I have spent the last week trying to email the following to Broad Street Ministry with no luck… I chalk it up to internet demons. Anyways, if you are out there Bill, its me, Sarah, eagerly waiting…
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One less hoop…
So today, whilst many a folk was probably enjoying the weather, or reading a nice book, or whatever folk do, I was doing the final preparations to send my forms for candidacy to the Committee on Preparation for Ministry in San Jose, CA who oversees and handles my ordination. It was a pretty big deal,…
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Ah Annual Meeting.
Long day at church today… because of the Annual Conglomeration’s meeting for budgetary and other administrative Issues. In other words, CHPC experienced an annual 2 hour recap of last year and the challenges facing next year. It was brutal (not as brutal as the session meeting on Wednesday) but it was also amazing to see…
Deeper in me than I 