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June 2013

June 09, 2013

From the Margins: A Sad Mother

From the Margins: A Sad Mother Luke 7:11-17 Last week we began a conversation about...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Aftermath

Aftermath Acts 6:1-7, Trinity Sunday Good morning, and welcome to Trinity Sunday, the Sunday of...

May 16, 2013

Two Rabbis and a Pastor Walk Into a Bar…

Okay, it's really a synagogue, not a bar. But there will be two rabbis...

May 13, 2013

Eyes Wide Open: From Staring Confused to Focused With Purpose

Eyes Wide Open: From Staring Confused to Focused With Purpose John 17:20-26 Although I was...

May 06, 2013

Eyes Wide Open: From Troubled Hearts to Peace-Filled Lives

Eyes Wide Open: From Troubled Hearts to Peace-Filled Lives John 14:23-29 I’ve been getting a...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

Eyes Wide Open: From Exclusion to Inclusion

Eyes Wide Open: From Exclusive to Inclusive Acts 11:1-18 It’s good, I think, to always...

April 17, 2013

Boston, Some Thoughts (Not Mine)

I'm tired of writing pastoral blog posts in response to horrible, tragic things. I wrote...

April 14, 2013

Eyes Wide Open: From Blind Conviction to True Purpose

Eyes Wide Open: From Blind Conviction to True Purpose Acts 9:1-20 I’m not much of...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Good Friday?

My favorite post for Good Friday. Peace, all.

March 25, 2013

Full Circle

Full Circle, Palm Sunday Luke 19:28-40 Life has a funny way of coming full circle. ...

March 18, 2013

Number Your Days: Six Days Before

Number Your Days…Six Days Before John 12:1-8 Our Gospel passage today is kind of a...

March 13, 2013

Poetry Corner

In the dormancy of Lent we can take our cue from fallow fields, lying vacant...

March 11, 2013

Number Your Days: A Few Days Later

Number Your Days…A Few Days Later Luke 15:1-32 Today is the fourth Sunday of Lent,...

March 04, 2013

Number Your Days: One More Year

Number Your Days…One More Year Luke 13:1-9 Welcome to the third Sunday of Lent, when...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Back From the Dead: Believe That Death is Not Inevitable

Here on the blog I’ve been summarizing some ideas from a book I read recently...

February 27, 2013

Number Your Days: The Third Day

Number Your Days…The Third Day Luke 13:31-35 As many of you know, I celebrated a...

February 20, 2013

Back From the Dead: Mutual Accountability

For the next few blog posts I’ll be talking about some things I learned from...

February 20, 2013

Number Your Days…Forty Days

When I was a kid my grandmother lived with us for half of every year. ...

February 13, 2013

Give it Up

Well, today is the start of Lent, as evidenced by the insane schedule at church...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Shine a Little Light on Our Discipleship

Last week in our exploration of membership we talked about the critical membership quality of...

January 24, 2013

Hell: A Theological (Kind Of) Reflection

A few years ago Rob Bell shocked the evangelical world by saying out loud what...

January 16, 2013

Guest Blogger Trey Sullivan: Thoughts on Baptism

For the next few weeks in worship we're talking frankly about some hallmarks of membership....

January 07, 2013

Doing Christmas Differently: Our Stories

To finish our Advent series devoted to the Advent Conspiracy, four Calvary members shared reflections...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

I Want to Write

I want to write the sort of words that ring in your ears as you...

December 19, 2012

Thinking about Connecticut

Like all of you, I've been thinking about how to voice the feelings that wash...

December 16, 2012

Doing Christmas Differently: Give More

Doing Christmas Differently: Give More Zephaniah 3:14-20 Today is the Advent Sunday of Joy. As...

December 12, 2012

The Pope Tweets in Seven Languages, What This Has to Do With Advent, and Other Profound Thoughts

So…the Pope is now tweeting in seven different languages. Two friends sent me a link...

December 09, 2012

Doing Christmas Differently: Spend Less

Doing Christmas Differently: Spend Less Malachi 3:1-4 Welcome, everybody, to Advent, week 2, the Sunday...

December 06, 2012

Be a Womb

“What is it that delivers Christ into the world—preaching, art, writing, scholarship, social justice? Thos...

December 03, 2012

Doing Christmas Differently: Worship Fully

Today we enter the season of Advent, the first Sunday of the new church year. ...

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