We proclaim the Lord’s Death until He comes, as often as we eat of the bread and drink of the wine, that is, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. Which is weird. Isn’t it? Proclaiming the Lord’s death seems like the kind of thing you would do if you were glad about it, […]
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It is no surprise to anyone who has been to Bible study here that the Philippians text for this morning is my favorite piece of scripture of them all; it is on the triptych of photos above the door to my office; it is inscribed upon my heart as they say in elsewhere in the […]
Tags : bedrock, cart before the horse, Christ Hymn, cleverness, Communion, consequences, Eucharist, honesty, love, Manna, self-deception, self-delusion, trivialize, we are beggars
There are things I know about quite a few of you that you’d probably rather I didn’t mention in church, or in front of other people at all. It is an odd position to be in, as Pastor, to know things, to know family secrets and to have seen people at their most vulnerable, or […]
Tags : confession, confessional, fallibility, forgiveness, Geraldo, honesty, isolation, Jesus Christ, naked, realistic, Swaggart, truth, TV, vulnerability, vulnerable
WOW, am I tired of people asking me what I gave up for Lent. I am tired of Lent being a time of dismal misery and privation, as if that would make people holy. What wonder the world thinks of Christians as either dour self-denying moralists or hand-waving cheerleaders for some polo-shirt wearing yahoo on […]
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