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Toward Sunday
We turn this week from John the baptizer in Mark’s Gospel to John the baptizer in John’s Gospel. In this telling of the story of John the baptizer, we’re reminded that John is not the light, but came to testify to the light. John is a witness. Outline of Worship Series. November 30, 2014 Mark 13.24-37 December 7, 2014 Mark 1.1-8 December 14, 2014 John 1,6-8, 19-28 December 21, 2014 Luke 1.26-38 Begin by reading John 1.6-8. Wonder about…
Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series this week called Talking Ourselves into Being Christian. We hope this worship series will help us to talk about following Jesus in our everyday lives. We will focus on talking about faith in the real world today…in our work lives and our volunteer commitments and our families. Our worship series is based on a book called Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christian by Thomas G. Long, a professor of theology and preaching at Candler School of Theology. Outline of Talking Ourselves into Being Christian July…
Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series this week called Talking Ourselves into Being Christian. We hope this worship series will help us to talk about following Jesus in our everyday lives. We will focus on talking about faith in the real world today…in our work lives and our volunteer commitments and our families. Our worship series is based on a book called Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christian by Thomas G. Long, a professor of theology and preaching at Candler School…
You are accepted
Sometimes the most faithful testimony doesn’t sound very religious. Sometimes a teacher’s whisper of encouragement, a word of greeting spoken over the screen of your laptop, a cup of tea delivered without request and an accompanying “this is for you my friend”…communicates that, as Paul Tillich wrote “you are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know.” Whenever we use our words to join in the activity of God in…