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Tag Archives: Easter
Sunday’s Sermon Today: Take HOPE (Easter -Luke 24:1-12)
Do you ever say things the wrong way, like you respond or you don’t respond the right way? One of my favorite comedians, Brian Regan, shares a series of instances of “foot in mouth” disease- like when you ask someone … Continue reading
Why Aren’t There Easter Lights? (A Mustard Seed Musing)
Driving home one night last week, I passed a church that was wrapped in lights. Not lit up with a spotlight or a Living Nativity display. With actual, multicolored lights. It seems like even the church wanted to get into … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Pop Culture, Theology
Tagged christmas, cross, death and resurrection, Easter, Jesus Christ
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Get Church Right: Important Punctuation (A Mustard Seed Musing)
Easter is in the bag. Actually, it’s been a week. We’ve put away the Easter hymns, lilies (achoo!), and settled into the “normal life” of the church. Sure, we’ll celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, but we lack the impetus … Continue reading
#GetChurchRight: Easter Monday AKA Live Like You Mean It (A Mustard Seed Musing)
Another Easter is in the books. Call it a wrap. We woke early, we ate well, we sang hymns we don’t sing nearly often enough, and we welcomed in the C & E crowd (Christmas and Easter for the uninitiated). … Continue reading
Easter Sunrise Sermon: Gone Fishing (John 21:1-14)
I won’t be preaching this Sunday, so here’s the early (7:30 a.m.) service message for Easter morning, April 20. Easter morning is one of those times when everyone in the church is experiencing one of those highs. The high of Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons, Theology
Tagged Easter, fishing, John 21, reenstatement of peter, sunrise
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Sunday’s Sermon Today: What Do You Pray For? (John 17:1-26)
Think of a relationship that matters to you. A spouse, a child, a parent, a friend. How do you show that person that they matter to you? Is it by giving gifts? Spending quality time? Physical touch? (Those are just … Continue reading
Catching Fire: What Does A Revolution Cost? (Movie Review)
In the second installment of the Hunger Games series (is that a trilogy or a quadrilogy?), Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself in a different predicament than in the first film when she entered the Games in place of her younger sister. Now, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Movie Reviews, Pop Culture, Reviews, Theology
Tagged Christ figure, Donald Sutherland, Easter, elizabeth banks, Fear, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, hunger games, jennifer lawrence, Jesus Christ, Josh Hutcherson, katniss, Katniss Everdeen, lenny kravitz, Liam Hemsworth, Peeta Mellark, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Plutarch Heavensbee, President Snow, Suzanne Collins, woody harrelson
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Get Church Right: Is Church Irrelevant? (A Mustard Seed Musing)
I’ve had one of those conversations, the kind that makes you stop and think. A young adult (seriously, is that twenties? thirties?) asked me some questions that you wish everyone would be willing to wrestle with. He obviously thinks God … Continue reading
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