Monday, November 27, 2006
Un Sermon
Okie dokie - couldn't figure out how to upload a file that big and large (30 minutes, 15 megs). So enjoy this instead. It's better.
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Saturday, November 25, 2006
Sermon
So, my sermon thingy changed a bit, but it's finished...t-minus 1 hour until it's first official delivery.
If you read this, pray that it won't suck. :-)
If I can figure out how, I'll post it here in it's entirety just in case anyone is listening.
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If you read this, pray that it won't suck. :-)
If I can figure out how, I'll post it here in it's entirety just in case anyone is listening.
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Friday, November 10, 2006
Sermon Idea
hey, anybody who still reads this - I'd love your feedback
I'm working on a sermon for the Thanksgiving Weekend. Here is my basic premise
How are we to live as an already/not yet people drawing from the story of Israel as an already/not yet people (leaving Egypt and wandering).
Key points:
Freedom - offered freely and yet we must choose it - sometimes we even long for bondage.
Small Victories (Exodus 13:17 ff) - God knows us and rejoices with us in small victories.
Salvation - Again and again God saves from ourselves and others - (Red Sea)
Complaints and Questioning - (Exodus 16)
Hope - The hope we cling to is that of His Kingdom coming (already, not yet, near, and delayed)- We cling to Jesus and His promise that this live is temporal; there are better things to come.
I'm looking for something to string these themes together - I heard the greatest message on tithing once and it had 5 simple words "Leave, Go, Get, Give, Change." Through the proclamation in that message the listener went on a journey with the storyteller. I'm hoping to do something similar with this, but it's still percolating.
Thoughts?
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I'm working on a sermon for the Thanksgiving Weekend. Here is my basic premise
How are we to live as an already/not yet people drawing from the story of Israel as an already/not yet people (leaving Egypt and wandering).
Key points:
Freedom - offered freely and yet we must choose it - sometimes we even long for bondage.
Small Victories (Exodus 13:17 ff) - God knows us and rejoices with us in small victories.
Salvation - Again and again God saves from ourselves and others - (Red Sea)
Complaints and Questioning - (Exodus 16)
Hope - The hope we cling to is that of His Kingdom coming (already, not yet, near, and delayed)- We cling to Jesus and His promise that this live is temporal; there are better things to come.
I'm looking for something to string these themes together - I heard the greatest message on tithing once and it had 5 simple words "Leave, Go, Get, Give, Change." Through the proclamation in that message the listener went on a journey with the storyteller. I'm hoping to do something similar with this, but it's still percolating.
Thoughts?
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Friday, November 03, 2006
blogging
Well, no sooner did I say I was back and then for whatever reason I couldn't access blogger anymore. So I guess I am back - sort of - that is, so long as I can get to blogger.
busy crazy stressful. That has been our life for the past week. It's been crappy, but I have to believe and hope that good times are ahead. :-)
Mostly it's just left me wanting to retreat from it all, but too pressed with deadlines and such to do so. Something good is coming though...
We got a cat. It loves me. I think it knows that I was the "no pet" holdout at our house so it has to stay in good with me.
I'm taking some courses through VLI (Vineyard Leadership Institute) and that has been great. Derek Morphew did a class on the kingdom that was one of the best lectures I've ever heard. ever. Sorry Dr. Ford. :-P
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busy crazy stressful. That has been our life for the past week. It's been crappy, but I have to believe and hope that good times are ahead. :-)
Mostly it's just left me wanting to retreat from it all, but too pressed with deadlines and such to do so. Something good is coming though...
We got a cat. It loves me. I think it knows that I was the "no pet" holdout at our house so it has to stay in good with me.
I'm taking some courses through VLI (Vineyard Leadership Institute) and that has been great. Derek Morphew did a class on the kingdom that was one of the best lectures I've ever heard. ever. Sorry Dr. Ford. :-P
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