Category Archives: Messages

Genesis Two

God gets dirty hands from forming humanity.  Go figure.  God communicates with what God created.  Plants a garden and offers companionship and sustenance. Later we hear of God enjoying the evening breezes walking in the garden.  How thoughtful; our scriptures … Continue reading →

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Jesus’ Late Summer Get-a-way

“… faith” is hardly about getting Jesus’ name or titles right, nailing the right confession, or articulating proper doctrine. It’s about clinging to Jesus and expecting him to heal, to restore, to save. Tyre: This time of year, with the … Continue reading →

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The Letter to the Hebrews

The author reshapes our perspectives through his images. One is of Jesus as pioneer, a first century Daniel Boone, but instead of blazing a path through the American forests, Jesus’ life experiences, his ministry, denial, suffering and torturous death, resurrection … Continue reading →

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Waiting

Paul Tillich wrote:  “I think of the theologian who does not wait for God, because he believes that he possesses God, enclosed within a doctrine.  I think of the Biblical student who does not wait for God, because he believes … Continue reading →

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Mose’s Do Over

A picture recently posted on Facebook was a proverbial thousand word illustration that only included three words – twice the word true was used and once the word truth.  It was a picture of a cylinder suspended between two bright … Continue reading →

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Certain Individuals

I find it fascinating that the translation of Luke’s words into English identifies those who made up the group to check out the rumor were ‘certain individuals’.  Certainty seems to have the effect of closing the door to consideration of … Continue reading →

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The Fear of the Lord

There’s a fascinating concept in traditional Quaker lore that described the work of the Holy Spirit.  It speaks of the Spirits ‘Terror and Power’.  When, as Jesus promised, Christ’s Spirit invades a person’s life the first thing to happen is … Continue reading →

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Psalm 146 What God Cares About

You’d think you were reading Amos or Jeremiah. According to Abraham Heschel,  Israel’s prophets are those whose ‘life and soul are at stake in what they say about the mystery of God’s relation to humanity.  We think of them as … Continue reading →

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Psalm 40 A New Song

…we wait in traffic, wait for things to get better, or wait in the waiting room. We are no good at waiting. We want to get moving, we can’t bear wasting time, and the clock is ticking while we just … Continue reading →

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Psalm 27 A Psalm of Trust

Worship on Sunday, June 21st, Father’s Day, became focused the attack by a young, self proclaimed, white supremacist on the participants of a Bible Study in an African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.  The message from Psalm 27, which follows, … Continue reading →

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