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Sucide: Defined By Life – a guest post by Julie Heidingsfelder
I have at least two more posts to share with all of you on the subject of suicide. This one comes from a woman, Julie Heidingsfelder, who is a member in our meeting. Julie
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Suicide: The Devil’s Own Loaves & Fishes – a guest post by Peggy Parsons
This post was written in 2010 for Peggy’s Personal blog “A Silly Poor Gospel” after the death of Friend and member of Freedom Friends Church of which she was then the pastor. Peggy’
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Suicide: The End of Paranoia – a guest post by Aaron Scott
This post continues the theme of reflecting on suicide and its impact in our lives. It is written by Aaron Scott, a close friend, biblical scholar, poverty initiative activist, and all around awesome person.
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Suicide: When Nobody Is Waiting for you Tomorrow
Image on flickr by martin_kelley This week is suicide prevention week and so it’s got me thinking more about suicide. I wrote some of my story about the suicide of my step-
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A Community that Does Not Yet Exist (Luke 14)
This is the text I preached on this past Sunday. “When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone to a
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Meeting is a Muscle: Teaching Worship To Children / Chad Stephenson
This is a guest post written by Chad Stephenson a Quaker from San Francisco. It is a response to the Friends Journal article “Bringing Children to Worship” and my follow-up article found here.
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Listening for God: The Eagle and the Bent Woman (Lk 13)
“Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and
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Describing “Silent” Worship to Children
Awhile back I did a Godly Play story during our meeting for worship. We invited the children to say with the adults and participate in our listening to the story. After the story we
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Thoughts on Bringing Children To Worship
As parents bringing children and teens to a time of worship can be a struggle. We place a lot of expectations on our kids and often hope they won’t “misbehave” during church. Plus,
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Listening as an Act of Faith (Hebrews 11)
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 NRSV) Introduction: Red Phone Skit – LInk There is No Red Phone If we’re going to
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Having Ears to Hear: Moving Towards Sympathy (Amos 8)
As you are all well aware this past weekend a not guilty verdict was handed down to George Zimmerman acquitting him of the murder of Trayvon Martin, the teenage african-american boy he shot
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Revelation #Sketchnotes
Reading Revelation #Sketchnotes, a photo by cwd1978 on Flickr. Here are some sketchnotes I’ve put together as a kind of overview of some of the things I’ve tried to focus on as
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Revelation is Remix (Revelation 21-22)
The ‘Self-Portrait’ as Remix A couple weeks back I showed you this image [Bob Dylan’s album titled Self-Portrait]. The cover image is one that Dylan himself painted. I couldn’t find
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Economics, Poverty and Crashing the Beast’s Party (Revelation 13, 18)
Making Heads and Hands of the Mark of the Beast If there is one aspect of Revelation that has been overused, abused and fallen prey to our constant temptation to make John’s first
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Revelation 12 : Liturgy as Formation – What Are We Creating?
Image from hellojenuine. “But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.