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The Biblical
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Prayers of Offense and Defense (pt. 1)
This week I have four short meditations on prayer based on Luke 18:9-14: “He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with
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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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Darkness, Lampstands and Light (Revelation 2-3)
The Lampstands in the Darkness This past week the American consciousness has been tilted towards the East Coast. Every news source, every line posted to social media, and many of the prayers offered up
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The Bible is the People’s Book
This is a message I gave a couple years ago and coming across it today I feel it’s worth sharing again. We in the church have a paradoxical relationship with the bible. Many
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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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Remixing the Bible
I bumped into this little cover image for the bible a few days ago and it got me thinking what people find
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The Politics of Surprise (Matt. 25: 31-46)
This is the text to the message I gave at Camas Friends Church on Jesus Sheep and Goats parable in Matt. 25. Matthew 25 (From Clarence Jordan’s Cotton Patch Gospel): When the son
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Modern Day Parable on Environmentalism (Joel Salatin)
Reading in the Christian Century today there was a review of Joel Salatin’s newest book “Mad farmer?” and read this parable from the “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic,” as Michael Pollan describes in
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‘Hail, space for the uncontained God’ (Luke 1:26ff)
This is my sermon from December 18. So far this advent we have focused largely on preparation. What is it we prepare for exactly? 2,000 years after Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection,
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The Inevitability of Absence (Ex. 32)
This is the message I gave at Camas Friends Church this past Sunday. Weve been doing a series on the book of exodus with an eye, or an ear, or both, to God
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The Ten Words of Love (Exodus 20)
This is the sermon I gave at Camas Friends Church on October 2, 2011 about the ten commandments. [First I asked some questions about people’s interactions with the ten commandments and we had
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Questions and Complaints: The Wilderness School (Ex 16)
This is the message I gave at Camas Friends Church on September 18, 2011. Complaints. We pick up our story shortly after were we left off last week. The Hebrews have past their entrance
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The Red Sea: From Obstacle to Opening (Exodus 14)
This is the text from the message I gave at Camas Friends Church September 11, 2011. The Experience of the Experience This past week we were at the beach. Searching for rocks. Lily and
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Being Drawn Out: Rebel Midwives, Empires and Little Hebrew Babies (Exodus 1-2)
Here is my message from August 21, 2011 (slides can be found here). _a birth story How many of you have given birth or been present at a birth before? [I told Story about
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The Res. Community (Pt. 5): The Things We Carry
This is the final message I gave a few months back on the resurrection community from John 21.This week we finish our series on the Resurrection Community by turning the last part of
