Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jun 24th, 2012
Fear, Faith, and the Storm Mark 4:35-41, NRSV Reflections How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that fire has become flesh, that life itself became life and walked in our midst? Christianity either means that or it means nothing. It is either the most devastating disclosure of the […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jun 17th, 2012
Filled with the Spirit Ephesians 5:15-21, NRSV Reflections However much we may wish it otherwise, when we receive the Spirit at conversion, divine perfection does not set in, but divine “infection” does! We have been invaded by the living God himself, in the person of his Spirit, whose goal is to infect us thoroughly with […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jun 10th, 2012
Transformed by the Spirit… Together Acts 2:37-47, NRSV Reflections Historically, the Church’s ability to transform society has depended not upon a power of management over society or political brokerage of its own interests, but rather upon a willingness to exercise its freedom to redeem and re-create a fallen world.— Vigen Guroian, from Incarnate Love: Essays […]
Traveling Light Relay
Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light