Category: simple church
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on the fallacy of keeping score when dealing with God’s grace
These are some excerpts from my sermon Sunday so it might feel disjointed at points. Yes, I do know that this possibly the longest sermon title in the history of sermon titles. Yes, I do know that the sermon title is also possibly the weirdest sermon title in the history of sermon titles. The sermon […]
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a sermon on Pentecost in light of #GC2016
Excerpts from my sermon Sunday based on Acts 2:1-21. To all the liturgy nerds, yes I know that Pentecost was May 15th, not May 22nd, but we had to move the Christian calendar around to make it all work. (this is one reason I’m Methodist and not Episcopalian, flexibility) So the backdrop for a lot […]
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Why we worship quietly?
Someone once asked me, ‘Are you the pastor of one of those boring churches?’ ‘Yes, yes I am,’ I replied. Our church is pretty boring compared to most forms of entertainment one can find these days. We can’t really compete with the latest coolest music venues, we don’t have a coffee bar in our community […]
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the case for grace-based evangelism
excerpt from a sermon on John 21:1-14 We live in some pretty crazy and interesting times. There is a lot of skepticism about organized religion and the church in particular. And if we are being honest with ourselves we deserve some of it, maybe even most of it. Polls have shown that millennials see the […]
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loving others, technology and why we need the church
On Tuesday morning at bible study our conversation flowed from the subject of Jesus’ resurrection* to what we might call ‘resurrection living’-i.e. loving our neighbors. The shift in topic really struck a chord as the conversation picked up as we moved from the theological to the realm of the practical. It was a good reminder […]