On Tuesday, I was stuck. My Trinity Sunday was bogged down and going nowhere. At our weekly worship planning, I shared this stuckness with Heather, Kate, Emma and Matt. Maybe my mire began with a Trinity Sunday children’s sermon, where a well meaning leader explained the Trinity with the three leaves of the shamrock, only […]
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If you had the hubris to write a book filled with everything people need to know about God, how might you organize it? Would you open such a Bible with a chapter of definitions and terms? Would you organize your chapters with titles like “how worship feeds our souls” or “dealing with oppression, evil […]
A seldom celebrated, yet vital part of any good preaching is asking questions. Questions are more dangerous than declarative statements for they demand an answer. We brush off a hard statement. It is harder to shake a good question. Jesus asked questions all the time. Here are a few: Is not life more than food? Do not even […]
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