Month: May 2011

  • On Love, Meekness and Watching Over Each Other (Isaac Penington 1667)

    My friend Vail Palmer recently recommended to me to read Isaac Pennington’s book of letters. While I was at George Fox University this week for a conference on discernment and leadership I took the chance to visit the Quaker collection there and borrow the Pennington collection. This is the letter I’ve read multiple times this…

  • The Res. Community Part 2: Finders, Seekers (Jn. 20)

    This was my prepared message for worship last Sunday. It is the second in a series looking at what it means to be the church in relationship to the final resurrection appearances of Jesus in the Gospel of John. _profiles of Thomas the Seeker I don’t know about you but Thomas has the potential to…

  • The Resurrection Community Part 1: Standing in the Midst (John 20:19-23)

    This was my prepared message for worship last Sunday. It is the first in a series looking at what it means to be the church in relationship to the final resurrection appearances of Jesus in the Gospel of John. _behind locked doors What is the first thing we can learn about this res. community? The…