Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Sermon Notes on May 26th, 2010
Sermon Series: Living Out the Resurrection Live by the Spirit Galatians 5:16-26, NRSV Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another. — Gal 5:26 Live by the Spirit, or, Led by the Spirit of God a cosmic conflict – between flesh and spirit two worldviews two identities pursue the relational wholeness […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on May 21st, 2010
Sermon Series: Living Out the Resurrection Gifted for Ministry Ephesians 4:7-16, NRSV Reflections Our imitation of God in this life … must be an imitation of God incarnate: our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on May 21st, 2010
Sermon Series: Living Out the Resurrection Rest Hebrews 4, NRSV Reflections Busyness is the enemy of spirituality. It is essentially laziness. It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing. It is filling our time with our own actions instead of paying attention to God’s actions. It is taking charge. — Eugene H. […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on May 7th, 2010
Sermon Series: Living Out the Resurrection Meditation Psalm 1, NRSV Meditation empty out your mind fill your mind with scripture, thinking of all the implications 5 P’s Place of meditation between reading scriptures and prayers (obviously I don’t meditate enough to lead to prayers) meditating is like preaching to yourself Promise that you will be […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on May 7th, 2010
Sermon Series: Living Out the Resurrection Improvising the Word Psalm 119:9-16, 32-37, TNIV Reflections Treat the word improvisation with care. What appears to be brilliant improvisation by musicians is often the result of a lot of hard work. It boils down to this: people who improvise are really calling upon their knowledge of the instrument […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Mar 21st, 2010
Lenten Sermon Series: Consider… Consider Discipleship Luke 14:25-27, NRSV Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. — Luke 14:26 more serious than considering sin, guilt, suffering it is considering dying, carrying the cross, it is required […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Mar 19th, 2010
Lenten Sermon Series: Consider… Consider Suffering Colossians 1:24-29, NRSV To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. — Col 1:27 what is our response to suffering? there is no god “terror management for […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Mar 19th, 2010
Lenten Sermon Series: Consider… Consider Guilt Psalm 32, NRSV You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with glad cries of deliverance. Selah — Psalm 32:7 Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Mar 19th, 2010
Lenten Sermon Series: Consider… Consider Sin Jeremiah 2:1-13, 19, NRSV Your wickedness will punish you, and your apostasies will convict you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts. — Jer 2:19 […]
Traveling Light Relay
Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light