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Archive for September, 2010


Preaching In The Transition Zone: Whose Vineyard

SERMON TITLE:  Whose Vineyard? – Texts:  Matthew 21:33-46 I recently heard a story about a college student who discover a way to make a little extra money with his personal computer.  Now when I say that he found a way to make a little extra money using his computer, I mean that quite literally.  He […]

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Preaching In The Transition Zone: Pioneers or Settlers

SERMON TITLE: Pioneers or Settlers!  – Texts:  Matthew 28:18-20 We’ve all heard stories about the westward expansion of the United States.  Leading the way were the pioneers.  They were the forerunners who preceded all others exploring the uncharted territories. Their ambition was to investigate every valley, climb every mountain, traverse every desert, cross every river, […]

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Transforming Initiatives

The philosopher Spopenhauer once wrote:  “…we are a lot like porcupines—when we move too far apart we grow cold and yearn for the warmth of other porcupines.  But when we move together, our needles prick each other and we back off again.” The Bible offers a pattern for dealing with interactions with each other as […]

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The Power To Be A Peacemaker

Corrie Ten Boom shares this true story in her book, The Hiding Place: It was a church service in Munich that I saw him, the former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck.  He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen […]

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Until God Fixes Things

Some of my most interesting theological conversations take place in the hot tub at the YMCA.  Kind of a strange thought, isn’t it?  Let me tell you about just one conversation.  The fellows name is Hank.  He is about 70 years old and a widower.  His wife died about 18 months ago during the week […]

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Jesus Is Not Generic

“I’m Just Saying…” Is there anything better than the phrase “God LOVES You?” YES! Here’s the deal:  we make LOVE so theological & philisophical that it often ceases to have reveal the real passion for a relationship. How about this? “God LIKES you!” God wants to hang with you. God thinks you are worth the investment […]

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USA Government Burns Bibles

“I’m Just Saying…” There is a report out that the US Military burned Bibles translated in Iraqi dialects which were sent to soldiers for distribution to Iraqi citizens. Some (political radio talk show hosts, for example) used this for political fodder against Obama (the report came out this past May, 2009). Fact check: The incident… […]

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Strange Understanding Of Atonement

“I’m Just Saying…” Some people have a really strange understanding of atonement. Got this note recently from a FACEBOOK “friend.” “The Gospel is a message of a God so angry that he’s willing to allow his chosen people to slaughter his son.” Here’s how I responded: “I have to totally disagree with you. To explain […]

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Christians Burning Bibles

?”Im Just Saying…” So, a church threatened to burn the Qu’ran. That’s crazy…Yet, last year on Holloween, five or so Christian churches in the USA burned Bibles. Seriously – they burned BIBLES (cause they were not of the King James Version). BTW, Muslims would never burn the Bible. They also consider it to be a […]

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Discipleship in “The Transition Zone”

The single most important contribution that Anabaptist ecclesiology can make in a post-modern world is to proclaim that Jesus Christ did not intend for his church to be viewed simply as another human institution.  Anabaptists of the sixteenth century were unimpressed by the vast institution the church had become, insisting that this was a corruption […]

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