Tag: church
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A REVIEW OF MOVE–THE SECOND PART
Monday my intrepid ministry staff met again to pick up where we left off in our close reading of the book Move. They had beverages, I however had not eaten all day and had a tasty tuna fish sandwich. I wish I had specified that the bread be toasted because it was soggy. Other than…
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THOUGHTS ON COMMUNION–WARNING–THEOLOGY AHEAD
I thought I had been sucked into a deep black hole that transported me magically away into a previous time. What year had I been whisked away to? Was it 1920? Maybe 1950? Perhaps it was 1979, for that might be the year that sealed this moment. My temporary time travel was brought about by…
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SERMON DEBRIEFING–THE WOMEN IN ACTS
I began my “Biographies in Acts” sermon series yesterday by surveying the prominent women in the book. Understandably, Acts is a male dominated text as is most of the Bible. But if we look hard enough we can glimpse the dawn of a new world in which there is “neither male nor female” but all…
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BOOK REVIEW OF “MOVE”–BUT ONLY THE FIRST PART
I am reading through the new Willow Creek book Move with our ministry staff. Yesterday we had coffee at a local bakery and talked about the first part of the book. It is divided into three sections. [UPDATE–TO check out Pastor Kendall’s take on the same book and the same discussion click to her…