By Parson Brown, on September 18th, 2012 Matthew 13:52 is one of the oddest verses in the bible – And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” My head is stuck thinking of . . . → Read More: Thoughts on messages that connect…
By Parson Brown, on May 4th, 2012 Once upon a time I had some coding chops. Now, not so much. And Facebook changed something. I logged in and found nobody in the facebook “fan box”. Wondering what had happened, I started checking it out. What had been the facebook page had been deleted, so there go a few hours leaning what the . . . → Read More: Argh! Coding Changes
By Parson Brown, on March 9th, 2011
March 8, 2011 – Circuit Meeting
This is the sermon delivered at the pastor’s meeting. If you heard the transfiguration sermon below, it is similar, but modified in a couple of ways for the audience. 1. I brought in the text for this coming Sunday hopefully to give the pastors a step or a . . . → Read More: Circuit Meeting
By Parson Brown, on March 9th, 2011 Full Text
Transfiguration is an evocative word. Being creatures in a half dimension of time, we know the past but can’t do anything about it. We don’t know the future, and usually fear it, especially when we know that it will transfigure us. We can either let that fear change us, or we can . . . → Read More: We know the who…
By Parson Brown, on September 21st, 2010 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
By Parson Brown, on October 27th, 2009 As a congregation we spent two Sundays on Mark 10:17-22 and then Mark 10:23-31 – the Rich Young Ruler and the aftermath explanations. [The LCMS three year lectionary cycle very closely follows the one used in most churches, but this is one of the places where it was modified. Instead of treating all that material . . . → Read More: Rich Young Man – revisited
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