Controlled chaos: shaving cream war at Great Escape Isn’t the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Isn’t the loaf of bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ? - 1...
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This post is a sermon from August 2012, a few months after I was diagnosed with depression. The summer series was in the Psalms and focused on different postures of worship. I preached at the end of summer on Psalm...
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Lord of the Sabbath – Part I
This is the first of two posts on Luke 6:1-11. One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. Some of the...
Prayers
Praying the Beatitudes
Prayers of the People from Sunday worship: Lord, we gather in your presence just as the multitudes did so many years ago on a hill in Galilee. We gather not only to hear your word to us but also to...
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(RE)Discovering the Tithe: It’s Personal
“So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD, have given me.” You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. Then you, together...
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(RE)Discovering the Tithe: Come
All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or the fruit from the tree, are the LORD’S; they are holy to the LORD. If persons wish to redeem any of their tithes, they must add one-fifth to...
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(Re)discovering the Tithe: Origins
He and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him one tenth of everything. – Genesis 14:19-20...
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In the same way, though there are many of us, we are one body in Christ, and individually we belong to each other. – Romans 12:5 (CEB) As I mentioned in Holy Sorrow, I worshipped this morning at Tippecanoe Presbyterian...
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Holy Sorrow
We're not meant to journey alone (Qumran, Israel). In the same way, though there are many of us, we are one body in Christ, and individually we belong to each other. – Romans 12:5 (CEB) Today I went to Tippecanoe...
Advent 2014
Advent Reflection: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Several years ago, I was struggling with “adoring” Jesus.
