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Full Text Text: Luke 15:1-10 Parables tell us about how God and his Kingdom work. Jesus’ parables has this tendency to get us nodding our heads in agreement as our minds slip off into warm fuzzy images of precious moments sheep and shepherds. But we should be struck by the fact that this is . . . → Read More: Our Economy vs. God’s Economy – Seeking and Finding  Comments are closed  Luke, Sermons  broom, female images of God, god's economy, parables, shepherd, wholeness Biology has the famous Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. That is the way that science has developed to talk about living things. As we understand more about DNA, some surprising things have happened on those tree branches. But the start of it really goes back to the childhood car game – animal, vegetable, . . . → Read More: Separating Law and Gospel – a look-in at the ELCA The gospel last week included the saying “pick up your cross and come after me.” The gospels were written after everything that happened happened, but in the moment, think how nonsensical that must have sounded. Higher Critics, like the Jesus Seminar, reject all saying like that as inauthentic (i.e. Jesus never said them, the church . . . → Read More: Observation/Cryptic Sayings Comments are closed Culture, John, Meditation contrarianism, Jesus Sayings, John, prophet, sitz im leben Open invite to everyone in the West Henrietta Area. Worship and Rally Day for Sunday School @ 10 AM Bounce House, Ice Cream, Chili Contest, Games and a bunch of other fun stuff starting at noon and continuing to 4 PM. Come and have some fun as we say good bye to summer and come . . . → Read More: September 12, 2010 – 12 PM – 4 PM – Free Community Festival As the Pastor of a smaller congregation (I can’t really say small anymore because our average attendance now places us around the 50th percentile), also as a pastor who had a successful run doing something else before, articles like this pop up on my screen. Truth be told, this is part of the reason I . . . → Read More: Things that can’t go on, eventually don’t… Comments are closed Church Direction budget worries, church growth, congregations, denominations, mission, pastoral education, pastors Full Text Luke 14:25-35 The travel narrative in Luke, what the lectionary has been taking us through this summer, is about discipleship. It is Luke’s collections of teachings and events that the disciples learned from Jesus on His was to the cross, as He prepared them for their cross. The lesson this week was . . . → Read More: It Looks Half Built Comments are closed cross, Luke, Sermons cross, faith, Luke, progress, sermons, shiny-happy, travel narrative If anyone is a Tolkien fan, that title is the other name for The Hobbit. And it expresses a truth about learning to live a faith. The first step in living a faith is to actually have a home. Find a community. Attend regularly. Be active in its life. Know what it teaches. Try living . . . → Read More: There and back again (or a pattern of Religious Education) Comments are closed Culture, Meditation Christian Education, faith, grace, living faith, pilgrim, Tolkien, wanderer, World Religions There are a lot of religious ghosts in this article. The article is a short cute story about “kids these days” and how they don’t value the oldsters advice like they used to. The 4th commandment (5th if you go by the Reformed count) is Honor your Father and Mother. Luther’s explanation, like all his . . . → Read More: The Advice Generation Gap |
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