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The Shootings, With a “What?,” and a “Yes” – Luke 3:10-17
This is the message I gave at meeting for worship this morning: And the crowds asked him, ‘What then should we do?’ In reply he said to them, ‘Whoever has two coats must share
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Romero on Christmas
No one can celebrate a genuine Christmas without being truly poor. The self-sufficient, the proud, those who, because they have everything, look down on others, those who have no need even of God–
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Parking Lots, Crooked Paths and Open Hearts (Luke 3)
This is the message I gave today at Camas Friends during meeting for worship. It is based on Luke 3:1-6. The Parking Lots When I was in high school I did what
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Happy Xmas (War is Over) – Polyphonic Spree Covers Lennon
I love, love, love Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over).” I always have and always will. It reminds me of growing up, I love the emotion of the song, and I share his
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Transitions, Temple and Reweaving the Bonds of Human Life (Mark 13)
This is the message I gave two weeks ago at Camas Friends Church on Mark 13:1-8. Life Transitions This past summer I found myself feeling drained, exhausted, uninspired and generally not myself.
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Walter Rauschenbusch – Thanksgiving Day Prayer
O God, we thank you for this earth, our home; For the wide sky and the blessed sun, For the salt sea and the running water, For the everlasting hills And the never-resting
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Nouwen on Gratitude
Gratitude … goes beyond the “mine” and “thine” and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness
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A Desire that Devours, Widows and an Election (Mark 12:38-13:2)
This is the message I gave on November 11, 2012. “As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in
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Clerical Oppressors – John Greenleaf Whittier (Poem)
JUST God! and these are they Who minister at thine altar, God of Right! Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel’s Ark of light! What! preach, and kidnap men?
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Scarcity, Abundance and the Sharing Economy (Mark 6:30-44)
This is the sermon I preached on October 28, 2012. It comes from the story of the feeding of the 5,000. Also, note that the general scope and interpretation of this sermon comes
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Quaker Bankers, Tithes and a Chocolate Factory (Matt 10:8)
This is the message I gave on Sunday morning October 19, 2012. You can listen to the audio version of it here. Last week we started to tackle the difficult subject of money and
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Curators and Caretakers and the Practice of Giving (Gen 1. 28)
* “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule…all the living things that creep on earth.” _Curators and Caretakers The church often uses the word “stewardship” to generalize things that
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Thinking Quakers, Money and Stewardship
A couple months back I started feeling the tug to wrestle with the topic of money in the church. As a preacher, I’ve largely avoided the topic like the plague. These are the
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Nursery of Truth: A New Convergent Friends Project
For almost a year now Quakers from 8-10 different meetings in the Northwest have been getting together once a month for a “convergent worship gathering.” We move around to different meetinghouses and enjoy
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Our River: John Greenleaf Whittier (Poem)
We know the world is rich with streams Renowned in song and story, Whose music murmurs through our dreams Of human love and glory: We know that Arno’s banks are fair, And Rhine
