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Toward Sunday
This week we consider Searching Scripture alongside 2 Timothy 3:14-17 as we move into week 4 of our worship series on practicing Christian disciplines to stay in love with God. Outline for Staying in Love with God. •May 15: Acts 2.1-21 (Public Worship) •May 22: Acts 2:37-42 (Witness/Testimony) •May 29: Psalm 92.1-4,12-15 (Prayer) •June 5: 2 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (Searching Scripture) •June 12: Matthew 26:26-28 (Communion) •June 19: Exodus 16.1-3, 9-15, 31, 35 (Fasting) How have you evolved in your approach to…
Bible Hints
“It seems to me that part of what the Bible is suggesting to us is that we can look around our everyday lives and say, “Here I am looking out my window at this magnolia tree. That’s not just a beautiful tree, and it’s not just something that was created by God. It actually is telling me something about who God is, because God describes God’s self as a tree in Hosea.” We have this powerful invitation from Scripture that…
Bible
This may sound strange, but when I think about the bible my first image is the photo above. This “painting” hung on the wall in my house when I was a child. The original is a photograph entitled “Grace” by Eric Enstrom. (You can learn more about this famous photo by clicking above.) I think that I memorized every part of the picture. The bowl, the “bible” and the glasses captured my imagination the most. They looked so real. I…
Toward Sunday
On Ramp is our five-week worship series imaginatively exploring central topics in Christian faith. We turn from Religion to Bible this week in worship. We are drawing upon and adapting some of the framework of a series called Animate (Faith) by SparkHouse Publications as we prepare this worship series for our particular context. Outline for On Ramp ▪July 12: Religion (Mark 6.14-29) ▪July 19: Bible (Acts 17.10-12) ▪July 26: God (1 Timothy 6.16, John 1.18, Matthew 6.9, Revelation 4.1-11, Luke 13.34) ▪August…
Searching scripture
“The Bible is a multi-voiced document, it is flawed in its grasp of ultimate things, but within it – as in our own flawed lives – we glimpse a mystery that holds us, always.” ~Rita Nakashima Brock & Rebecca Ann Parker (Proverbs of Ashes p 11) As we continue our series on Hope in Dying and turn to scripture each week may we be mindful of the many ways the mystery of God continues to unfold in and around us –…
Toward Sunday
Searching scripture is one of the ways we stay in love with God. To this end, we continue this week with our study of the writings attributed to John from the New Testament. We focused our first two weeks on the Gospel of John and the Letters of John. We will conclude our three-week series this Sunday with reflection on the Revelation of John. Outline of Worship Series. November 9, 2014 Gospel of John (John 3.16) November 16, 2014 Letters…
Toward Sunday
Searching scripture is one of the ways we stay in love with God. To this end, we continue this week with our study of the writings attributed to John from the New Testament. We focused on the Gospel of John in worship last Sunday and we turn to the the Letters of John this week. We will conclude this three-week series with reflection on the Revelation of John. Outline of Worship Series. November 9, 2014 Gospel of John (John 3.16)…
Mot Juste
The Gospel of John is written in a different fashion than the others. Below is a quote from Frederick Buechner (Peculiar Treasures, a bibilical who’s who. p83) to ponder as you go through your day and in preparation for our new worship series on John. “Jesus, for John, is the Jesus he knew in his own heart and the one he believed everybody else could know too it they only kept their hearts open. He is Jesus as the Word that…
Toward Sunday
Searching scripture is one of the ways we stay in love with God. To this end, we will study the writings attributed to John from the New Testament over the next three weeks in worship. We will begin with the Gospel of John, then turn to the the Letters of John, and conclude with reflection on the Revelation of John. Outline of Worship Series. November 9, 2014 Gospel of John (John 3.16) November 16, 2014 Letters of John (1 John…