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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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Reaching Those Who are Far From Christ
The MethoBlogosphere is buzzing with reflections on the departure of the Grace Point United Methodist Church leadership, and presumably all or most of the congregation with them. The Rev. Butts and the leadership team have started a new congregation called Grace Point Community Church, which began their first worship service apart from the denomination on…
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