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I’ve been slow to get things on the website. For that I apologize. It has been a hectic season, and I want to share with you some of the stuff we’ve been working on and what will be coming up. Last Sunday was the congregational meeting where the proposed budget for next year was . . . → Read More: Happenings around here
The attached presentation below was published in the newletter and was present at the 11/15 congregational meeting. At the last congregational meeting me present a vision for St. Mark. The response has been positive and the phrase we’ve been using is that is appears people have “bought into” the vision. Almost literally as . . . → Read More: Vision to Mission – Congregational Meeting Update
Full Text Mark 13:1-13 We are contingent creatures. That is a fancy way of saying we depend upon other people and things. Some of those people and things are big foundation stones that if a crack showed up in them, we’d just not know what to do. And that is the problem. When . . . → Read More: Large Stones
Full Text Text: Mark 12:38-44 I got to deliver this sermon to two different audiences on the same day – the congregation here at St. Mark and the student mission at RIT. The full copy is the congregational delivery whic some things were modified for the RIT community, but it always amazes me that what preaching . . . → Read More: Who gave all? – Mark 12:38-44
Text: 1 Cor 14:1-12 Looking at the passage for today those in Corinth are hungry for what Paul calls spiritual gifts. If you read closer you realize that these spiritual gifts are not the list of love, joy, peace, patience, etc but are manifestation of the Spirit such as speaking in tongues. Paul directs . . . → Read More: Mysteries in the Spirit
Read David Brooks today. (He’s using this as source material.) For most of the church’s existence in the US, it has had a cozy relationship to the culture. A Christian could blend in. Those days are ending fast. The church will need to adapt to being pilgrims or strangers in a strange . . . → Read More: From the what can you say file…
Full Text Let me just say two things about this sermon: 1) I really hate it as a sermon. I think it misses the audience, doesn’t point to Christ enough, lacks a real solid textual foundation and doesn’t have the unity of message it should have. 2) I think some of the parts of . . . → Read More: All Saints – Two Calendars telling a story |
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