Friday, May 29, 2009

What does it matter?

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"You have wearied the LORD with your words. 'How have we wearied him?' you ask. By saying, 'All who do evil a...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Thought for today

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"When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old I admire kind people."—Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Flow

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...it's possible to spend years trying to achieve perfect stability without moving to higher levels of flow and pull. Experience suggest...
Monday, May 25, 2009

You gotta watch that fertility rate...

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in Late Bronze age women, that is; it might just have skyrocketed. Huh? OK, here's the deal: Until someone can demonstrate that Canaanit...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Garden shots

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As promised some time ago, pictures of the garden. Looking west, from the road. The herb garden is in front, with wire mesh over the dill, b...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Final from Why Priests

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This is the final extract from Why Priests . I hope you have enjoyed the little snippets. How does the apostolic ideal image of a Church lea...

And then there were four :(

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We have lost all but one of the kittens. One died about 2 weeks ago; it couldn't adjust to solid food. But, yesterday two of the remaini...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Activism

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The responsibility of the congregation leader is thus also a responsibility for society in general. This is not to say that in the spirit of...

Thought for today

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"Let us treat men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Church leader as bureaucrat? No way!

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On the basis of the constants which, according to the New Testament message, must be preserved amid all the variables, the Church's mini...

The Sermon

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A while back I posted a series of quotes from To Preach or Not to Preach . His basic premise was/is that preaching to the saved is a wast...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Frost!

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We planted our garden on Saturday, once the rain stopped. It was a cold weekend, with a strong wind from the north both days. But, that didn...
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Blind obedience?

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The supreme norm for the exercise of authority in Christ's Church must be the New Testament message against the horizon of each new ind...
Friday, May 15, 2009

A Calling is the requirement

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Any ministry of leadership in Christ's Church, ordained or not, thus presupposes at the deepest level a calling by the Spirit of God and...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

The purpose of leadership

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The Church's ministry of leadership is meant essentially not to be an autocratic authority absorbing all other functions, but one minist...

National Bike to Work day

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Tomorrow is national bike to work day . I encourage everyone to pull out their bikes and ride to work, if possible. If your commute is less...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Wednesday's thought

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Full participation of women in the Church's life, on the basis of equal rights, is something that belongs to a suitably renewed Church t...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Living Sacrifice

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Because of this sacrifice of Christ [on the cross], the congregation too is invited to sacrifice. Not merely exterior offerings, but the ded...

I want to be a pencil

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"I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. 1 am like a little pencil in his hand. That's all. He does the thinking. H...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Augustine's problem becomes dogma

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Interesting observation in Why Priests as Küng traces the development of the priesthood in church history: Augustine is the one who "i...