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| What is this blog about? - Friday, June 01, 2007Each week I'll be writing some thoughts about the upcoming Sunday lessons, two Sundays ahead. My hope is that this will help laity be better prepared for worship, that it will help me to be better prepared for preaching, and that it might possibly be a service to some of my fellow pastors as well. NOTE: this is not a heavy exegetical blog. I won't be digging into the Hebrew or Greek. That is step-one of the sermon preparation. This is step-two, some cogitating about the devotional application of the text. How can we apply it to our lives. I hope it's helpful.
You can find a schedule of all the Sunday readings here.
You can read the SPOTS Devotion from St. Paul here in pdf format. read more ... |
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| What is this blog about? - Friday, June 01, 2007Each week I'll be writing some thoughts about the upcoming Sunday lessons, two Sundays ahead. My hope is that this will help laity be better prepared for worship, that it will help me to be better prepared for preaching, and that it might possibly be a service to some of my fellow pastors as well. NOTE: this is not a heavy exegetical blog. I won't be digging into the Hebrew or Greek. That is step-one of the sermon preparation. This is step-two, some cogitating about the devotional application of the text. How can we apply it to our lives. I hope it's helpful.
You can find a schedule of all the Sunday readings here.
You can read the SPOTS Devotion from St. Paul here in pdf format. read more ... |
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I couldn't resist sending this along. These three pastors are on their way to a funeral. The 125cc motorcycle is ubiquitous here.
Hotels, cruise ships, motor homes, they all advertise some version of that idea of a home-away-from-home. But it's never quite the same, is it?
Being in Africa is r-e-a-l-l-y different from being at home, in hundreds of small ways, and yet there really is a home away from home here.
At home I could easily email or text message or call any of my friends or family...
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Go south to the road - the desert road - that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." So he started out, and on the way...
There are a lot of pregnant phrases in the Bible. I like the words "started out." I've always been distressed at the number of things in my life that I have started, but not finished. The giant model railroad layout - the model ship - the cool website idea - the new way to teach confirmation... I could list them all day (and get more and more depressed).
On the other hand, there's this other pregnant phrase, "and on the way..."
(25 May) Let's try a larger font and see it that's more friendly.
Prophecy is weird and confusing. I don't mean to be negative. It's just that there is a cultural disconnect here that frequently messes us up. We "moderns" (and even in this so-called post-modern age we are still pretty much modern in our outlook) always see things in a linear fashion. We like our history in timelines. We like our books to have numbered pages and chapters. We expect movies to move from exposition to conclusion...
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