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Don’t Just Lie There. Bail!

Of course you heard about Continental’s flight #61 that arrived in Newark Thursday morning from Brussels, a flight on which the pilot died.  Can you imagine your stress level had you been that young co-pilot as he took into his … Continue reading

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Seeds, Weeds and the Kingdom

We struggle with the question of how it was that what Jesus had to say was so upsetting to the leadership of the Judaism. It is hard for us to imagine the challenges these people heard in what Jesus shared.  … Continue reading

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Being Rather Than Doing

Debra Murphy of the Ekklesia Project in writing to clergy persons trained and able to elucidate the fine distinctions between, say, Augustine and Origen or Moltmann and Marshall suggests that they may not be up on the latest treatise on … Continue reading

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“Oh, No”.

Text: Acts 2: 1-21: Pentecost     Kate Huey wrote of our story from the Acts of the Apostles: it must have felt like creation all over again, with wind and fire, and something new bursting forth. Then there was … Continue reading

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“Stay”

Ascension Sunday   Title: “Stay!” Text: John 17: 11And now I am no longer in the world,….   Friendswood Lumber and Hardware was the first real job I ever had.  Gene Greathouse ran the business, ordering hardware and doing “take … Continue reading

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Disturbed Disciples

  Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well-pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.   Disturb us Lord, when with … Continue reading

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Good Shepherd

  There is a presentation of Jesus found in the longer biblical context of Jesus’ healing the man born blind that has become iconic.  The event itself ignited a major confrontation between the man and the religious and political shepherds … Continue reading

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The Mark of Barnabas

In his recent book called UnChristian; What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity, David Kinnaman presents the results of three-years of statistical research and extensive interviews on how an overwhelming percentage of sixteen to twenty-nine year olds view the … Continue reading

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Easter Stories

Easter 2009 Conditions in our world may enable some of us to hear the Easter story in a new way this year. Many have had carefully tucked away retirement funds evaporate, others have experienced the loss of a treasured dream … Continue reading

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Two Messages

Pastor’s Page this week contains two messages.  The first was prepared by Keith Sellers and shared on in Meeting for Worship on March 29.  The second is Nick Block’s Palm Sunday meditation.

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