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Build People Up, Don't Put Them DownSeptember 5, 2010When Paul wrote this letter to the Roman church, he was giving them instructions on how to be a community of Christian virtue. Don't judge each other. Don't get in each other's way. Don't be consumed with your own perfection. Instead, build each other up. In your relationships, don't just look for pleasure or advantage, but be friends of character.
 ScoffSeptember 4, 2010Is anybody else out there tired of sarcasm? Am I the only one sick of his own smug superiority, of earning cheap laughs while desperately trying to appear sophisticated or something?
A Shared WitnessSeptember 3, 2010News Flash: The letters of the Apostle Paul, sent to churches throughout the region of Asia Minor in the first century, were not e-mailed, faxed or texted to individual church members. They were sent to corporate bodies of believers and they were always read aloud in the collective settings of Christians, gathered together. The letters of Paul were never intended to be read by individuals in isolation. They always evoked a shared witness, and shared hearing and a shared reflection.
Asking for HelpSeptember 2, 2010It's better to give than receive but the best givers are good receivers. Otherwise giving is one-sided and leads to resentment. We act as though others need us more than we need them and miss what they have to give.
Address: 5715 Broken SpiritSeptember 1, 2010Where does God dwell? Where is God to be found? If you're looking for God, where should you look?
The Best Choice You Never Heard OfAugust 31, 2010I often tell people that our congregation is "the best choice you never heard of." In olden days and ways, I would have said we are marching to Zion. Our congregation'and many others'remind of nothing so much as the Isner/Mahut tennis match at Wimbledon. It was the longest game of tennis ever played'and in it, everybody wins. You can't possibly say that someone who stayed in that long a match LOST. When you last that long, you don't lose.
What Doesn't Change?August 30, 2010If faith in Jesus is thought to have become weaker and narrower than it used to be, our vision is limited to the northern and western parts of the globe. In the south and east, Jesus is a rising star.
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