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2020-04-22T09:14:23-06:00

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A Prayer For Earth Day During The Pandemic

Last updated on: April 22, 2020 at 9:14 am By C. Don Jones

Good morning, God. Hear my prayer. It’s April 22nd. We are commemorating the first Earth Day demonstration fifty years later. Today we are seeing clearer waters and skies. The air is cooler for some of us. By and large, I am sitting still. I offer this prayer in remembrance. There is a terrible disease moving around the world. This Covid-19 is having terrible effects on the health and well-being of your children here. I know this is a common occurrence... Read more

Devotional

2020-04-20T09:35:18-06:00

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Enough Eggs

Last updated on: April 20, 2020 at 9:35 am By C. Don Jones

A community Easter egg hunt is an interesting example of commutative justice. Okay. Hold your judgment on whether I am oversimplifying or overcomplicating until later. Easter egg hunts are done in large areas that are divided into sections. The children hunting the eggs are assigned to sections by age groups. The toddlers in one area, kindergarten to third grade in another, etc. so each child has the potential to find enough eggs to be satisfied. The older, taller, faster, and... Read more

Biblical Interpretation

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Love as action

2020-06-20T15:50:58-06:00

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The Fragile God

Last updated on: June 20, 2020 at 3:50 pm By C. Don Jones

Alfred Nobel never endowed a prize for mathematics. Legend has it his mistress left him for a mathematician. I doubt it is true. But if it is, mathematicians got even with the Nobel Prize for Economic Science. I like the term “hard sciences.” The sciences of biology, chemistry, and physics require work that can be reproduced from the practitioners. There are two messages we hear about the American economy. The first is it is the world’s strongest. The second is... Read more

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False Claims

2020-04-13T09:02:12-06:00

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Easter Monday

Last updated on: April 13, 2020 at 9:02 am By C. Don Jones

I once saw a funny meme on a T-shirt. It read, “on the eighth day we started bulldozing.” I saw two different messages involved there. The obvious message concerned environmental stewardship. The not as obvious message is really simple. What happened on the eighth day of Creation? I first heard of Easter Monday when I moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was a traditional day off of the Moravian Church that first settled Salem. We have nothing like that on... Read more

Biblical Interpretation

Community

2020-04-09T11:08:58-06:00

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The New Commandment Requires Courage

Last updated on: April 9, 2020 at 11:08 am By C. Don Jones

Jesus said to the disciples, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” (John 13:34) I want to ask a question here. What makes this commandment new? Important Passages from the Hebrew Bible Leviticus gives this command, “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.” (19:18) Community... Read more

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Holy Week

Love as action

2020-04-06T12:15:21-06:00

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Time To Burn It Down

Last updated on: April 6, 2020 at 12:15 pm By C. Don Jones

Holy Week is the time we remember all of the events of the last week of Jesus’ life and death before the Resurrection. We remember the story from John where Jesus washes the disciples’ feet and gives the new commandment on Maundy Thursday. Celebrations of Holy Communion happen on the same day. We remember his death on Good Friday. But, we rarely have time for the events and statements that happen from Monday to Wednesday. The last week was a... Read more

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Truth

2020-04-04T11:22:57-06:00

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Justice And Dionysius

Last updated on: April 4, 2020 at 11:22 am By C. Don Jones

Our group stood on a catwalk looking over the restored floor on an ancient house in Sepphoris, Israel. It was a beautiful mosaic depicting two women as the hostesses and presumably owners of the house. Like all 1st century mosaics, it was rather busy. One could see many scenes. One scene in particular captured my attention. It was a triumphal procession. A male figure rode in triumph on the back of a donkey. Other figures waved palm branches. I appreciated... Read more

Biblical Interpretation

Community

2020-04-02T12:56:02-06:00

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Rethinking A Cornerstone Church Practice

Last updated on: April 2, 2020 at 12:56 pm By C. Don Jones

Lent is almost over. Palm Sunday is almost here. The Easter Season is coming next. The question remains. What do we do once we proclaim “Christ is Risen”? It is a good question. The answer most of us were given in church was “tell other people about it.” What does Mary Magdalene do once she sees Jesus near the tomb? What did the angel tell the women to do after showing them an empty tomb? It is obvious. They went... Read more

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Evangelism

Love as action

2020-03-30T12:09:23-06:00

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The Panic Returns

Last updated on: March 30, 2020 at 12:09 pm By C. Don Jones

The panic has returned. Wendell Berry’s title character in Jayber Crow says from time to time “the war returned.” He was talking about the wars in his lifetime. They were no different from each other. I believe the same thing could be said about the panic. It takes different forms. But it returns. This time the panic involves the supply of dry goods (paper products), some foodstuffs, and weapons. Last time it involved psychiatrists and courts. The Satanic Panic Stories of... Read more

2020-03-27T15:09:03-06:00

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Truth Is Important

Last updated on: March 27, 2020 at 3:09 pm By C. Don Jones

Recent events have reminded us that facts are important. Indeed, the very importance of truth has been demonstrated for us. It has been done in a negative way. Still, we witnessed many sane responses to facts that intend to save lives and appear to do so. It is a cause for celebration. I have seen too many lies from too many fundamentalist sources to believe that truth matters to many of them. The President and many leaders in his party... Read more

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