Archive for May, 2007

• Unfinished Meditation on Christian Unity

  Jesus’ Great Fear.
  It is my belief that as Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane he gave voice in his prayer to one of his great fears. We can find this fear in the passage we read from John 17. What was it?Was it his impending arrest?The fact that he would be beaten, mocked […]

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  May 17th, 2007

• You Can’t Just Sit Around - A Sermon for Ascension Day

  I begin today with two stories about Ascension:
  Story One:
  Larry Walters was a truck driver, but his lifelong dream was to fly. When he graduated from high school, Larry joined the Air Force hoping to become a pilot,but his poor eyesight disqualified him. So when he finally left the service, Larry had to satisfy himself with […]

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  May 17th, 2007

• Powerpoint Slides for Ascension Day

  Below you will find four slides I have put together for Ascension Day.  To get to a larger version of each slide (800×600), click on the image to be taken to my flickr account.  Let me know if these are of any use.  Thanks.

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  If you appreciate and/or use […]

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  May 15th, 2007

• The Problems and Promise of Healing

  Well, it ain’t much really, but here is my meditation on healing for today.  Hopefully my words will be buttressed by the liturgy of healing that will follow my message, and which is the heart of the worship service for today anyway.
  The texts for the sermon can be found in this post.
  Today I want to […]

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  May 13th, 2007

• Help Needed - Pleeaasse Someone Help

  The last couple of weeks I have had a really hard time writing my Sunday sermon.  The texts have not been all that inspiring (yes, I do know that they were inspired by God, but that really hasn’t helped me much in dealing with them), and I have struggled to come up with a preaching […]

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  May 11th, 2007