Most organizations or institutions do not make changes until they just stop functioning. Somewhere in a vague past the complexity and size that an institution had built up actually helped. Then it stops. But the institution can’t even think about operating in another way. That is the way we’ve always done things – even though . . . → Read More: A Virtue of a Necessity
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 Comments are closed  Church Direction, Culture  catholics, change, identity, institutions, leadership, organizations, schools, Truth 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 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 Confirmation instruction will be starting up again. This year is the church doctrine year, and while the doctrine is not all ethics, church doctrine helps us answer the question of how should we live and thrive? This essay is from a Sociology Prof teaching an introductory course that focuses on many of the same questions. . . . → Read More: Teaching Virtue This is from Rod Dreher and takes its jumping off point from an evangelical church that is holding mixed martial arts (MMA) viewing/fight nights. The Fight Club for Jesus title is kind of funny, but the larger point is not just to ridicule the impulse. Rod takes the efforts as good faith actions to address . . . → Read More: Masculine Virtues in Religion? 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 presented . . . → 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 our pledge . . . → Read More: Vision to Mission – Congregational Meeting Update 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 land as the . . . → Read More: From the what can you say file… Full Text People have long looked at the second grouping of these verses (Mark 9:42-50) as simply an individual warning. That reading has always caused me trouble as I either needed to treat it as completely spiritual which I don’t like, or I needed to go lopp off a hand or pluck out an . . . → Read More: Sermon – Mark 9:38-50 – Low Walls, High Standards |
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