Jun 1, 2008 | General, Leading the Church, Pop Culture
It takes a guy like Moses to tell people who are standing in the middle of a desert with no food stores, no national economy, and not much of a standing army that their proposed invasion of the Promised Land wouldn’t be too hard. Here. You read it. Pretty good...
May 1, 2008 | General, Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
This world is my home. I don’t plan to fly away. I’d rather build God’s kingdom here than slip into some fantasy cloudscape with a little cabin in the corner of Gloryland. Honestly, I don’t even know what that last part means. In all of the...
Apr 15, 2008 | Leading the Church, Methodism, Pop Culture
We’ve been gathering job descriptions at Piperton UMC lately. Some were concerned that the job descriptions were going to be used for thorough overhauls of the work done at our church. They aren’t. Some were afraid that we were trying to figure out who to...
Apr 1, 2008 | General, Pop Culture, US Politics
I recently re-read an article written by one of the greatest theologians of modernity. The article is entitled Our Secularized Civilization and the author is Reinhold Niebuhr. Its a little thick. And it is dated 1926. And since he never had a reality television show,...
Mar 29, 2008 | General, Leading the Church, Pop Culture
Since right after Christmas, we’ve been dealing with questions. For four Sundays, I endeavored to answer your questions in a series of sermons that approached some difficult thinking. My apologies for rephrasing some of the questions, but I think we got some...
Mar 2, 2008 | Announcements, Leading the Church, Pop Culture
A young man in my congregation, David Fricke, hopes to teach young Ugandan children the skill of photography. David hopes that the photos that they take can be used as both a source of income and a way to communicate to the world the plight of their region. Through...
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