Posted in 26709 on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
This was the sermon for Sunday, December 23rd. I didn’t crush any children’s belief in Santa, as they were all gone downstairs. Happy Holidays!!
It has been great fun this year watching Marcus really begin to wonder about this Santa Claus fella. ‘Why does he fly?’ ‘What do his reindeer eat?’ ‘Why is his belly so [...]
Posted in 26709 on December 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
***Warning: This is sarcasm. If you are offended by sarcasm, please stop reading right now. No one will have any sympathy for you if you don’t.***
Imagine the shock I experienced as, a few days ago, I loaded up my family and headed to the Children’s Museum. We were making our first visit to the Holly [...]
Posted in 26709 on December 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Here is a link to a radio interview with liberal Christian scholar John Dominic Crossan. His reading of the Christmas stories is very meaningful to me. He sees the birth narratives of Jesus as intentionally-written parables. However, he says that arguing about the historicity of the accounts is simply a way of evading their respective [...]
Posted in 26709 on December 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Worship was cancelled this week, and I’ll be delivering this week’s sermon next week at the congregation’s holiday music service. In lieu of a sermon, here’s something I wrote last year, evidently on a day when I was feeling opinionated. I know things can be more complicated than this. It’s very tongue-in-cheek. Blessings.
There’s a commercial [...]
Posted in 26709 on December 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Just having a little fun and thought I’d share it. Hope it finds you well.
A guy named Tommy moved to town
Bought a house at Fifth and Brown
Moved right in and settled down
In the heart of Rumano
His neighbor, Joe, he worshiped Sloan
Who sat in heaven on a giant throne
Ruling the world all on his own
This Sloan [...]
Posted in 26709 on December 7, 2007 | No Comments »
The Pentecostals in this article aren’t in my own tradition. In fact, we used to think of the Assembly of God as the home of the most ‘liberal’ folk in the Pentecostal faith. The women in their denomination cut their hair, wore make-up and jewelry and slacks, and were in a good mood most of [...]
Posted in 26709 on December 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A topic like this one is bound to get some great discussion, as it did in our December 2 service. Blessings to you!
It was a big mistake, the Harvard professors would decide later. An enormous mistake to ask Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Harvard alum, to deliver an address to the 1838 graduating class at Harvard [...]
