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It’s Time to Grow Up
Grow Up! Hebrews 5:12-6:3 In the lectionary cycle, we are reaching the end of the time of year that is named “ordinary time.” Next week, we will celebrate a service of remembrance of Thanksgiving and...
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God’s Calling to Take Care of Yourself
God Calls You to Take Care of Yourself I Corinthians 6:11-20 Today we begin a series of messages in this season of Epiphany all about God’s calling to us. It’s the time of year that the Christian...
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God Calls You to See What Others Don’t
God Calls You: to See What Others Don’t I Samuel 3:1-10; Romans 12:1-8 Several years ago while participating in the Lewis Fellows Young Clergy Leadership program, our group of 30 pastors gathered in...
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Living in Interfaith Land
The first time I heard the phrase “God is too big for any one religion” I was in seminary. This statement was found on a bumper sticker on my roommate’s car. I looked at it every morning when I walked...
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The Suffering of Jesus Means What?
As our series of “Sermons by Request” continues, I had an opportunity this week to explore Isaiah 53:1-6 and do some theological reflection of my own on theories of atonement. Thanks for reading. I...
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I’m Spiritual but Not Religious
I’m Spiritual but Not Religious: James 1:17-27 Today’s excuse in our ”Excuses” series is among the most commonly cited why people don’t come to church. I’ve heard countless versions of it during my...
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The Spirituality of International Travel
Often times in the church, we think of spiritual disciplines as a practice which we can qualify as holy action. Practices like praying, reading scripture, doing works of charity and the like are often...
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Why do you do this work?
Over the course of our travels and many meetings with Feed the Children staff, partners and other NGO leaders there is one question I find myself asking these folks over and over: “Why do you do this...
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Faith and Film: Some Must Sees
I’m always on a quest to find God in places that are outside the church. Spirituality can happen anywhere, I feel– in conversations over coffee, while listening to music or even at the theater. We just...
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Do you know the website Spiritual Book Club? Check out this site to meet some new bloggers and spiritual thinkers as well as great book recommendations. Several months ago they contacted me for an...
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Pentecost Possibilities- Susan Smartt Cook
Today our Pentecostal series continues with a guest post from Susan Smartt Cook. You may remember her wonderful prose from our Advent series last winter. Susan is a midwife, a wife, the mother to two...
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