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early thesising 2008-03-05 05:40:20 Here's one:The Father’s sermons were lectures and pregnant with exhortation to right Christian act and ethos. Calvin considered Chrysostom a humanist. At the very least, he viewed him through a humanist lens thusly attributing to Chrysostom humanist motivations for his interpretation and homiletics....
monday videoblog: talking about talking 2008-03-03 12:06:45 monday videoblog: talking about talking Add to My Profile | More Videos Thanks again to Columbia College and Carly Flagg-Campbell for allowing me to come out and talk about talking. Yeah. How many times can one use the world "talk" in a single videopost? Many. Oh, and it's longer than usual...of course....
just because... 2008-03-03 08:38:49 Larry and Jorge have both taken this test recently. I've taken it before, but I thought I would join in the game. Here I am. Not surprising... Here's a useful comparison or two. Go here to take the test yourself. The Monday videoblog approacheth!...
lovely 2008-03-02 22:41:25 Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons....
sermon: free to see 2008-03-02 06:25:35 Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A 2008 The Community Church of Wilmette March 2, 2008 Psalm 23 John 9:1-42 Free to See The thing that is most surprising to me is this: The man who had been blind since birth, the same man who had been begging outside their walls for years, their neighbors’ son, is someone that they did not recognize. All this talk about sight, gaining it, healing it, and, for the Pharisees at least, losing it, and it is so easy to miss this simple little point: Before Jesus had come along and healed the man no one knew who he was. And no one cared. I love a trial scene as much as the next guy, and this one in John’s gospel is pretty famous all things being equal. Someone who has received grace is being blamed for it…being blamed for being healed. He was healed on
the irs and the ucc...presidential tango 2008-02-29 06:45:20 Welcome to the church, my friends.Obama speech to denomination spurs IRS investigation of UCC By Robert Marus WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A speech that Barack Obama made last year to his fellow Congregationalists has spurred an Internal Revenue Service investigation that threatens the tax-exempt status of an entire denomination. Leaders of the Illinois senator’s United Church of Christ are fighting back, saying the IRS charges are baseless and “disturbing.” In a letter dated Feb. 20 and received by church officials Feb. 25, IRS official Marsha Ramirez said “a reasonable belief exists” that the denomination violated federal law. Churches and other non-profit groups organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code are barred from endorsing or opposing candidates and political part
separation anxiety 2008-02-28 06:46:29 Where Calvin would eventually go awry would be in making this policy one for the entire city of Geneva. There would be a Christian litmus test of sorts with proper allegiance being to the church as proper for the citizenry as well.... Read more:anxiety
more thesis: gotta have max 2008-02-27 07:33:33 Max Thurian, in The Eucharistic Memorial, suggests that Calvin's theology of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist is derived "from a sermon attributed to Chrysostom by Erasmus and printed in the edition of his works published at Basel in 1530."...
sign language... 2008-02-26 09:30:09 This Thursday I will be taking part in a panel discussion about language
and privilege. I am, as has been advertised, the token straight male white guy....and a Baptist Minister (horrors!) as well. Language and Privilege: A Panel Discussion Feb 28, 2008 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Have you ever been in a situation where you were not allowed to say or sign something because it was not the proper thing due to your own background? Have you ever been offended by someone's statement because he or she may not belong to your linguistic community? Have you ever been unsure of the right thing to say? How do we empower ourselves through our language without dictating the way other's use language? This panel brings to the table members of varying language communities so they may share their experiences with la
thesis-ing 2008-02-26 06:06:54 As essential as the regular frequency of the observance may have been to Calvin, Barth suggests that this was not Calvin’s principal concern. In stead, the principal concern was the purity of the church, the worthiness of the congregant to come forward. “The institution of the Lord’s Supper has as its aim the uniting of the members of Christ to their Head and the uniting among themselves as one body and spirit. But this union must not be stained and besmirched by the participation of those whose evil lives declare that they do not belong to Jesus.”...
sermon: digging out 2008-02-24 06:43:02 Sermon: Third Sunday of Lent, Year A The Community Church of Wilmette February 24, 2008 John 4:5-42 Digging Out There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there, too. But often stones and grit block the well, and God is buried beneath. Then God must be dug out again. – Etty HillesumThere is something about a well. It’s a rich symbol, practical and yet mysterious, frightening and yet life-giving. We dig them. We cover them. We send Jack and Jill up a hill to fetch a pail of water from a well. We fall into them. There is a well on my father’s property. Actually, there are two now. The first one dried up and Daddy had to have another one, a deeper one, dug in the back yard. Out in the country where he lives there are no water mains, no civil infrastructu Read more:digging
paschal mystery 2008-02-23 06:52:09 Life and death...institutions struggle with issues of life and death all the time. Institutions are born, they live, they die...and sometimes they resurrect. Sometimes the shift in management/structure/vision is so dramatic at an institution that it has to die in order to change. It must die and then be resurrected, a new creation. I don't know the specifics of the goings on at Seabury right now. And I'm not entirely sure I want or need to. Selfishly I am simply glad that I can complete my thesis this year and still receive my 2004 MTS degree. A little more compassion in my vision reveals a deep love and concern for Seabury and the potential it has always possessed...skills and scholarship it has to offer to the Church Universal. I hope that the people on the current planning committee can
all I know about it... 2008-02-22 05:50:10 Frank posted the letter from the Dean. Here is the text:February 20, 2008 To: Students, Faculty, and Staff of Seabury The Board of Trustees of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary spent two days at its regular February meeting in discussion of the immediate opportunities and challenges before the seminary. There are, first, enormously creative opportunities facing seminaries today. Many areas of the church are developing new ways both of doing and preparing for ministry. And multiple church groups continue to call for a new range of educational services from our institutions of theological education: continuing education for clergy, lay education, distance learning, and consulting services for congregations and dioceses. At the same time, all the seminaries of the Episcopal Church face rea
signs of our ideas 2008-03-11 17:40:16 Here is something for you to mull over related to the panel discussion a couple of weeks ago.... Read more:ideas
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not all fifteen 2008-03-11 07:01:26 I experience rather than understand it. Here, then, without any arguing, I embrace the truth of God in which I may safely rest content. Christ proclaims that his flesh is the food, his blood the drink, of my soul. I offer him my soul to be fed with such food. In his sacred supper he bids me take, eat, and drink his body and blood under the symbols of bread and wine: I have no doubt that he truly proffers them and that I receive them.- John Calvin, Institutio 1543The alarm went off at 5:00am this morning. The first news story was about the space shuttle. Night launches are very cool. Well, in my half-dozing state, I also heard a a jet flying overhead...So, I spent the first moments of my morning trying to figure out why they were launching the shuttle from O'Hare. Some days just begin this
it begins tomorrow night 2008-03-10 15:36:20 Five pages into my day...Boy howdy, did Calvin have a thing for purity.... Read more:tomorrow
monday videoblog: the baptist hokey pokey 2008-03-10 09:08:07 monday videoblog: the baptist hokey pokeyAdd to My Profile | More Videos The First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia The First Baptist Church of Washington, DC Alban Institute One of the Girls...
sermon: founded upon tears 2008-03-08 07:36:08 This post has been edited per very helpful comments. This is why I share. Thank you, all. And, yeah, it still needs a little tweaking. Sermon: The Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year A 2008 The Community Church of Wilmette March 9, 2008 Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45 Founded upon Tears The church of God is founded
upon tears. This is one of the truest things I can say about the church. It is founded upon the tears of Christ. It is upheld by the tears of the followers of Christ. And how often I forget this truth. I become distracted by other things… Today’s passage from John is fraught with distractions for me. John has chosen to write it in such a way as to force us, to compel us to ask theological questions. He puts theology in the mouths of those around Jesus. Martha says, “I know that [Lazarus
gushee speaks 2008-03-06 16:29:00 This is from the Associated Baptist Press. Opinion: The battle for power and the spirit of Christ By David Gushee (ABP) -- In various ways I have been trying to pry open some space between our Christian understanding of the mission of the church and the work of earthly politics -- without creating such a gulf that we retreat entirely from civic engagement. One of my foundational “anti-texts” for this emphasis is the statement by Jerry Falwell just after George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in 2004: “The church won the 2004 election. Don’t let anyone tell you any differently.” My burden is to help Christians come to understand how desperately wrong that kind of statement is at a theological and ecclesiological level. Perhaps a shift to the other side of the political world -- the cu
No title 2008-03-14 09:32:00 Here are the set lists for the gigs this weekend. We make lists. But sticking to them is always iffy. C'mon out tonight. OotG St Pat’s week 2008 Set List A Sea Medley Johnny Jump Up Molly Malone Foggy Dew Whiskey in the Jar Little Beggarman Orange and the Green Finnegan’s Wake God Save Ireland Irish Rover OotG St Pat’s week 2008 Set List B Jug of Punch You’re Gonna Miss Me As I Roved Out Water is Wide Cobbler Spanish Lady Fiddler’s Green Grandpa’s Rules You Are My Sunshine Wayfaring Stranger Armageddon All for Me Grog I Wanna Be Sedated OotG St Pat’s week 2008 Set List C The Medley Reilly’s Daughter Sam Hull Isn’t It Grand Devil’s Daughter Badly Bent Sweet Child O’Mine Big Strong Man Wild Rover Fields of Athenry Irish Soldier Laddie Hills of Connemara Monto Parting Gl
thinking thoughts 2008-03-13 07:34:09 It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.- Dietrich BonhoefferThe great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life. - Henri Nouwen I am not preaching this weekend. It's Palm and Passion Sunday, so we have a long reading from Matthew to share with the congregation. I've distilled it into a "script" of sorts like is often done. The voice of the crowd that asks for Jesus' blood is given to the congregation. Someone will read the words of Jesus. Someone will read Peter and assorted other rol Read more:thinking
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easter sermon: indeed, no partiality 2008-03-23 08:18:22 Sermon: Easter Sunday Year A 2008 The Community Church of Wilmette March 23, 2008 Ps. 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 Mt. 28:1-10 Indeed, No Partiality The theological is in the news once again. If we are going to have to see it in the news, I want you all to know a little something about what theology is behind all of the hubub. Today is Easter Sunday. Today we make the most profound theological statement available to us as Christians. Alleluia! The Lord is Risen! The Lord is Risen, indeed! Alleluia! Once again the theological is in the news. Jeremiah Wright, the now retired pastor of Trinity UCC in Chicago, preached a sermon following the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001 that has come back to haunt him and the presidential candidate he loves so well, Senator Obama. Have you all heard
coy mistress 2008-03-25 10:01:47 coy mistress Originally uploaded by AngloBaptist Yes. We had a lovely Holy Saturday Tea Party this year. This was our first. As one would expect, people wore hats to this tea party. One should. It's spring. Never mind the snow on the ground! This is my wife. She's lovely in her hat....
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