Archive for the ‘My Favorite Posts’ Category
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Or, The Most Important Part of This Story
Two confessions:
I'm not very good at prayer.
I'm not a people person.
Don't get me wrong, I believe in the power of prayer. I believe that there is great benefit and power in prayer. I'm just not very good at it.
I bristle with ...
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
I have a phrase that I repeat over and over again. I don't know where I got it. I am assuming that it is just my own quote that I have concocted over the last 18 months of refining my theology. However, I do not want to be so arrogant ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
Sometime during my elementary school years I was given the nickname "Scooter." Not very inventive, just an extension of my name. Kids in grade school called me by that moniker all the time.
When I hit seventh grade I moved to the main high school campus. One Friday after school we ...
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
I could let it bother me that some have resorted to the use of "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas."
I could let it bother me that corporations don't automatically rush to worship the way I do or embrace the same ideals that I hold dear.
And I do understand why so ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
I have a high view of Scripture. I hold unswervingly to the fact that it is the divinely inspired and inerrant word of God. Truths for life are contained in the sacred words of the Bible.
I also believe there is a danger in reading into the Bible messages that are ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
This is the final excerpt from a sermon I preached a couple of months back. We must get serious about our ministry to the poor and the outcast.
Here is the conclusion of my thoughts:
In Matthew 26 Jesus is anointed while having dinner at Simon the lepers by an unnamed woman ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Note: I make ample use of illustrations in my sermons. Due to length I have trimmed much of those.
Objections
to having the poor with us:
1. "It's Pointless. Jesus said
they will always be around" Our main text for today.
This is all too often a response to this
passage. I believe that ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Sojourners alerts us to the fact that Congress will be discussing this week where to make cuts to our budget in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
It is obvious that cuts will not be made in a runaway war. Nor will the rich be expected to part with any additional ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I finally saw the movie Crash the other night and was overwhelmed with the poignancy in which it deals with the subject of race in America.
As the most developed society in history, you would think that we would be more progressive than we are.
That we would judge people based upon ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
We, in the church are good at talk.
We have honed the fine art of homily and discourse
We can orate, debate, pontificate and dissertate with the best of them.
We can lay out our doctrinal position with acute clarity and passionate vigor.
We can quote Acts 2:38 and do the "five-finger" exercise.
We ...
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