Bible 101: Pulling Meat Out of a Text
Text: Hebrews 5:11-6:3, Revelation 3:15-16 The author of Hebrews doesn’t seem very nice. The people they are writing to are called lazy. They are compared…
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Bible 101: From the Septuagint to the Message
Text: John 1:1-14, 2 Timothy 3:16-17 First question I have for all of you… how many of you felt like last week’s discussion of quantum…
Bible 101: Quantum Mechanics, Elephants, and JEPD
Text: Selections (interwoven) from Mark 1, Matthew 3, Luke 3, John 1 on John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus In Western Christianity, we…
GC2019: Committee On Reference
This past weekend, I was part of the meeting of the Committee on Reference for the General Conference. Typically, our work focuses on assigning (or…
Bible 101: Unraveling the Mystery
Text: Ephesians 3:1-12 and Matthew 2:1-6 A group of astrologers looked up into the night sky and saw something that caught their eye. A new…
The Redemption of Scrooge: Keeping Christmas Well
Text: Luke 2: 8-20 Over the four weeks of Advent, we have been exploring together in worship the story of Ebenezer Scrooge captured in A…
The Redemption of Scrooge: Facing the Yet to Come
Text: Romans 8:4b-17, Luke 4:18-19 There are a number of personality inventories out there, but one that has captured my imagination lately is the Enneagram….
The Redemption of Scrooge: Bah Humbug!
Text: Isaiah 9:6-7, Luke 1:46-47, 52-55 One of my favorite Christmas movies every year is that timeless tale by Charles Dicken’s – a Christmas Carol….