Today will be fun, because we get to talk about circumcision! Really though, what will be revealing is that as we understand what circumcision represented for Israel, realize who Paul is talking to and what he is saying is that how much Paul is defining the gospel as a cosmic event that affects all of […]
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As we start into Ephesians it’s going to be important to try and keep the things we talk about week to week at the back of our heads. We do not want to risk treating the scriptures as individual pieces all thrown together that can be taken out of context and put on display as
Being the season of Advent, a season of purposeful waiting, it tends to get a bit serious. Everything is more solemn right now, the songs we sing with Dan leading are more depressing about longing and waiting and for the most part we just want to dive into the Christmas spirit and quit being so
We have been in a series right now entitled Results May Vary. The idea being that even as we move along in our lives and understand what our role is that the results will always end up differently. There is no right way that someone can dictate to you to be a good steward or
We finally got our write-up for our series finished and we left it up there when you were walking in just so you could get a grasp on what we are trying to do with the fall series. Entire industries are built on the premise of guarantees. Companies and organizations live and die by the
One of the the things I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about and reading about lately is our worship service. I tend to do this and then start reading a lot of books, meeting people and asking hard questions so I can better understand what is going on. So there are different questions
We are entering in at Chapter 25 in Acts this morning. So there is a lot happening now in Acts. Paul is bound up in prison for at least two years. He is being used as some sort of political tool to impress others and frustrate others. He is constantly defending himself and his story
Acts was written by Luke as a second part to the Gospel of Luke. Acts is chronicling the spread of the church from the Ascension of Jesus to following Paul around on his different missionary journeys. There is key things we are supposed to notice about how the gospel has been spreading. Namely it has
We are making our way through Acts at a fairly good pace and we are seeing how the gospel is starting to make its way to the ends of the earth. We are starting to see a strategy unfold, and seeing how the way that the apostles and disciples are passing along the news isn’t
So this morning we are finishing up Acts 11. Because it’s fairly short and there isn’t too much exegetical work that I am going to do, we are going to take some time and try to understand and picture ourselves in light of what we know so far of the early church. I think it
So after our two week break for Easter, we are coming back into the book of Acts. We’ve spent a lot of time more in liturgical settings with doing readings out loud, prayers out loud and spending time in traditions that have been with the church for two thousand years. We only start to scratch
We all met 15 minutes before sunrise at the local beach. We had a big campfire roaring as people showed up. After the liturgy we went back to our space and had a pancake breakfast. You can read the Good Friday Liturgy here. [Reading – John 20] Early on the first day of the week,
Here is our Good Friday Liturgy from 2012. Each section was read by a different member of our community including children from gr. 5 and up. The Resurrection Sunday liturgy can be found here. [Introduction] Before we start, remember, Sunday service starts at 6:45 at Canatara beach at the Bandshell. Bring toppings for Pancakes as we will
So we are still in the book of Acts, we’ve been here since October and we are only still in chapter eight. As we go through Acts we are starting to see the story unfold in a way where the good news is moving from Judea, to Samaria to the ends of the earth. Last
As we start to unfold this story of the first Christians we are picking up on some important themes, and not only that, we are starting to see that everything is connected. Everything from Genesis 1 to the law and the prophets and into the gospel stories and message is tied into this story. Without
As we work our way through Acts we are starting to get a hold on what was going on with the very first Christians. This is a well articulated story of how this news of Jesus dying and rising again has spread to the entire world. It started with Jesus telling his closest friends, to
Allright so Joe spoke last week about how John and Peter were taken in and questioned by the high priest and Sadducees. Basically what happened is you have John and Peter and they are running around healing people and telling people that the messiah that they were waiting for is finally found in Jesus Christ
Remember where we came from last week. Peter has just finished the speech of all speeches connecting the dots of how the hope of Israel is realized in the death and Resurrection of Jesus. You have now three thousand people who have all subscribed to this way of seeing the world. The movement is now
Movements have happened all over the world. They all have different characteristics and accomplish different tasks. Movements never mean that everything changes from that moment on definitely. However, a movement, or the day a movement begins are momentous occasions that symbolize the beginning of systematic change. Think about the civil rights movement and how important
This summer our series is called Pirate Radio and it’s all about the Minor Prophets. Prophets were these spokesmen that God used to pass messages to people. Sometimes they acted out prophetic parables (such as the different stories with Jeremiah, or some people think Jonah is a parable), sometimes they would yell from a desert,