My home church, FUMC Williamstown, will be participating in Advent Conspiracy for the third year in 2009. Helping people reconnect with the true meaning of Christmas by learning to give more relationally and to help the most marginalized people in the world with the basic necessity for survival--clean water. These are a few of my … Continue reading Time to rethink Christmas!
Gospel
Time to go all Old Testament on you…
Because I've been teaching a couple of classes on the Old Testament for the past few weeks, it's really been influencing my thinking of late. It seems a lot of Christians don't like to spend much time in the Old Testament. Beyond the Creation story, a few character sketches about various heroes and villains we … Continue reading Time to go all Old Testament on you…
New perspectives on perspective
Life really is all about perspective, isn't it? The way we view the world is so deeply informed by our circumstances, perceptions, associations and experiences that we really don't even notice it. It just is. We define everything by our perspective. That's why there is always tension and conflict in life...we are individuals with different perspectives … Continue reading New perspectives on perspective
A Roller Coaster Guy Stuck in a Merry-Go-Round Park
I love metaphors. I think there's a reason Jesus speaks so much in that form through stories and parables. Metaphors draw pictures of concepts in a way that speaks to our commonality of experience. Regular readers--both of you (insert smiley face emoticon here)--will notice that lately I've been wrestling with expressing some frustrations in the arena … Continue reading A Roller Coaster Guy Stuck in a Merry-Go-Round Park
Church…or crutch?
Earlier this week I was in a meeting where part of the discussion centered around "marketing" the church. The discussion itself isn't really what was important, nor was the specific topic. But it rubbed up against something in my subconscious that's been bothering me; something I couldn't quite wrap my brain around, but was nagging … Continue reading Church…or crutch?
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