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Interventions: The Real Distance of Our Neighbors (Luke 10:25-37)
For Sunday morning September 6 we covered the parable of the Good Samaritan. We did things a little differently this morning. At the beginning of the service we watched the short film from Deidox
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Interventions: (The) Feeding (of) the Twelve? (Luke 9:10-17)
From Sunday August 30, 20009 [We used Bagels and Lox as a part of an object lesson during the Sermon, one possible (and tasty) contemporary rendering of loaves and fish.] This morning we are
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Taking Time To Learn About Other’s Experiences of the Light
This comes from the Advices and Queries of Britain Yearly Meeting: Take time to learn about other people’s experiences of the
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Being Attentive To the Paths of Intervention (Luke 1-6)
We began the study of the Gospel of Luke back at the beginning of July with an eye towards moments when the narrative turns ever so lightly, or sometimes rather abruptly, in a way
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Meeting with a Mentor
I’ve been slowly working through one of Eugene Peterson’s books on pastoral ministry called “Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness. ” The book is a lot about Peterson’s own
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Interventions: Poetry on the Plain (Luke 6:20-49)
We opened with this video from Peter Rollins. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8UEaIJAN0&w=425&h=344] [The part from this video that stood out to me and I
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Interventions: Feasting with Tyrants and Tax Collectors (Luke 5:27-39)
Here is the text I preached from on Sunday 8.2.2009. The reflection is on Luke 5:27-39. You can also subscribe to or download the audio version of the sermon from
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Interventions: A Short-Circuit in Mission (Luke 4:14-30)
I was unable to post my talk from last Sunday here this week because I’ve been busy at YM but I did post it on the church’s blog and on twitter. If
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Interventions: What Then Shall We Produce? (Luke 3:1-20)
Interventions: What Then Should We Do? John the Baptist and Luke 3:1-20 Peace Playhouse This past week was our peace playhouse, which from all the reports I heard, went well. Because of
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Luke 1:5-38 Interventions: Birthing the Impossible (Notes from Sunday July 12th)
This is what we reflected on together as a community this past The kingdom is for the Little Ones We have two parallel passages today, one with a story of two people “getting on
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Meeting New Challenges Through Repetition
In every generation the church faces new, as well as old, challenges. For many years, Christendom allowed a basic stability within the culture for the church to remain in tact. It was a false
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Interventions in The Gospel of Luke
Tomorrow we begin a series we’re playfully naming, “Interventions in The Gospel of Luke.” Our reflections will not only draw on the text itself, what it says, what it teaches, but it suggests
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Off and Traveling the Quaker-World-Wide
Tomorrow morning I leave for North Carolina to attend the Friends Association for Higher Education. FAHE is for all Quakers working in
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Lectio Divina and Acts 2:41-47
This past Sunday we finished up our discussions around Acts 2. For worship, we had a more meditative tempo. The host for
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We Too Need an “I’m Sorry Day”: Concerning the Recent Abortion Murder
Jarrod McKenna’s posted on the God’s Politics Blog about the “I’m Sorry Day” Australian’s celebrate every year as a remind that “there is no future without confessing and seeking to