Posts Tagged ‘Bible’
Book Review: Jesus
Posted by: revjmk on: February 18, 2012
Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary, by Marcus J. Borg, HarperOne, 2006, 343 pp. As I prepared to travel in the Holy Land, I thought I would want a historical resource book (or two, but I never even opened Crossan’s Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography) to accompany the places and Gospel [...]
Book Review: Provoking the Gospel
Posted by: revjmk on: October 2, 2011
Provoking the Gospel: Methods to Embody Biblical Storytelling through Drama by Richard W. Swanson, Pilgrim Press, 2004, 136 pp. I purchased this book at the UCC General Synod this summer, and I had no idea how timely and helpful it would be. During the months of August and September, I preached a sermon series entitled [...]
Advent 4A — Praying with Love
Posted by: revjmk on: December 14, 2010
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Sometimes, I need to take time early in the week to express my disagreements and resentments toward a passage of scripture. It is my hope that, by Sunday, these frustrations can be transformed into a helpful, insightful struggle to share with others, or at least be set aside to make way for the Gospel. This [...]
Sermon Sapling: Advent 3A, Praying for Joy
Posted by: revjmk on: December 7, 2010
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Highlighted Passage: Isaiah 35:1-10 I am struck in my initial reading by the audience for this passage from Isaiah. The prophet is declaring joy and courage and gladness, but for whom? For the wilderness, the dry lands, the weak hands, the feeble knees, the fearful hearts. Those are the places and peoples that probably need [...]
Sermon Sapling: Advent 2, Praying with Hope
Posted by: revjmk on: December 1, 2010
Highlighted passage: Romans 15:4-13 This week is all about hope, a word that has endured a lot of attention in recent years. When the Obama campaign used “Hope” as its campaign theme in 2008, those who supported the campaign rallied around hope as our solution and salvation—even when the campaign never clearly defined what we [...]
What to do about Adult Christian Education? Part III
Posted by: revjmk on: November 2, 2010
Part III: Moving toward Holistic Faith Formation This is part III of a discussion of adult Christian education, particularly the problem of low attendance. It originates in response to this post from Jan Edmiston at A Church for Starving Artists. It begins with Part I: Is Christian Education a Cultural Thing? and continues with Part [...]
What to do about Adult Christian Education? Part II
Posted by: revjmk on: October 28, 2010
- In: Bible | Ministry Moments
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Part II: Other Reasons for Struggling Christian Education, and a Imagining a Different Way This is part II of a discussion of adult Christian education, particularly the problem of low attendance. It originates in response to this post from Jan Edmiston at A Church for Starving Artists, and begins with Part I: Is Christian Education [...]
What to do about Adult Christian Education? Part I
Posted by: revjmk on: October 26, 2010
- In: Bible | Ministry Moments
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Last week, Jan Edmiston, over on her wonderful blog A Church for Starving Artists, wrote about the challenge of low attendance at worship and other church events. She discussed adult Christian education as one of the chief places where church’s struggle with low attendance, and speculates about why. I have been thinking a lot about [...]
Book Review: A Christianity Worth Believing
Posted by: revjmk on: August 17, 2010
A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-Well Faith for the Left-out, Left-behind and Let Down in Us All, by Doug Pagitt, Jossey-Bass, 2008, 242 pp. I think I have finally found what I’ve been looking for. Not the faith that Pagitt describes—I found my way to a Christianity worth believing a long time ago, and [...]
Welcome Home, Nomar Garciaparra
Posted by: revjmk on: March 10, 2010
- In: Bible | Sports
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Thanks for taking us back, Nomar. Red Sox Nation never stopped loving you. We mourned when you got traded. We wanted you to get a World Series ring. We followed your career, injury after injury, and wished life was different. Yet in the end, in spite of being let go and left out by the [...]
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