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Creo Sermon Series
> I believe in the Holy Spirit Ezekiel 3:12-21 / Psalm 104 / I Corinthians 2:6-16 / John 16:4b-15 “I believe in God the Father” … (recite creed rapidly with congregation up to the pause before the clause on the Holy Spirit … then take a deep breath). If the creed were to stop there…
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Sermon Blogging: “God the Father Almighty like a Mammy”
>“Creo / I believe: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters” Sermon II “God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.” The God of Job is a God to be feared. The Maker of heaven and earth is a God to be revered and honored. The God of today’s psalmist is a God whose…
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Sermon Blogging: “More than a Perfunctory Kiss”
>Below is the first in a new summer sermon series at RUMC entitled: “Creo / I believe: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters” that will walk through the clauses of the Apostles’ Creed. The lectionary complied for this series can be found here, in a previous blog post. ————————– Today is Trinity Sunday, so…
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Preaching in Ordinary Time
>For the second summer in a row, I am departing from the lectionary to preach a sermon series. To continue to give my congregation a balanced diet of Scripture, I have discovered that one of the great joys of doing this is in creating a lectionary to follow the theme of the series. I especially…
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Sermon Podcast: The Uncommon Common Life
>Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter, 2009. http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf
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Church Email Made Easy
>OK, so enough people have asked me about church emails they have received from RUMC or Monday Meditations that I have decided to tell you about the service we use and why. Is this a shameless advertisement? No, but if anyone wants to try using this email service, I would ask you to use the…
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Fasting and Feasting
>One of the best articles I have ever read on fasting and feasting. If you need some inspiration for those Lenten disciples, I highly recommend reading this (click picture to go directly to article): FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Keep the Fast, Keep the Feast via kwout
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Clergy Education Indebtedness
>To this post by Bishop Willimon on clergy education indebtedness, I can only say “amen.” When I stood before the NC Conference and was asked the historic question: “Are you in debt so as to embarrass you in your work (?),” I said “yes (!)” – loudly – half hoping that someone would stop me…
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Quote of the Day: Why Movies are not Sacraments
The movies are perfect as a Gnostic medium because they beam ideas to our mind. Our bodies are occupied, hopefully by comfortable bucket seats, fresh popcorn, and maybe a hand held in another’s. But that’s just to keep us comfortable for two hours of brain work. I’ve seen plenty of people give their lives for…
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