February 2012
16 posts
The troubles of my heart are enlarged
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Let the bones that you have broken rejoice
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Ash Wednesday: The Splash of Cold Water
On this Ash Wednesday, I was thinking about what NT Wright said about John the Baptist:
“John was a voice, shouting across the dreams, and perhaps the nightmares, of the Judaism of Herod and Caiaphas, the Judaism that told again and again the story of freedom but had no idea what freedom would look like when it came. Some thought John was mad, that it was him who was dreaming; but here he...
Heart take courage
Song Refrain for Psalm 27 by...
“You Amass a Hundred Answers but Refuse to...
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
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Ash Wednesday at St Thomas the Doubter
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return
We will have an Ash Wednesday service next Wednesday, February 22, at 7:00pm at the Embassy Suites Hotel. Childcare will be provided.
Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the season called Lent, which is a 40 day period of reflecting on our sinfulness and a time of repentance to God.
“The Ordinary and the Sacred” A sermon...
Because of our likeness to St Thomas: A Prayer
We’re opening our prayers this evening with the following on St Thomas:
“Almighty and ever living God, who, for the greater confirmation of the Christian faith, did suffer your apostle Thomas to be doubtful in your Son’s resurrection. We acknowledge and repent that our faith in you, o God, is often weak and filled with doubt. Grant that we may perfectly, and without doubt,...
I pour out my complaint before him
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The difference between trips and journeys
I shared the quote below with our church yesterday. These thoughts from Hauerwas and Pinches are meaningful for me because I want our church to be a home for doubters to come in and experience the peace of Christ but I don’t know entirely what that kind of church looks like. We started with bits and pieces of ideas and we’ve made significant strides in becoming that church over the...
Music Refrain for Psalm 111 by Benj Pocta. Reading...