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This past Sunday (9-6-09) I was able to preach on Ephesians 6.10-17. I went over a number of scripture texts and someone asked if I would post these on the website. So here are a few of my notes from the sermon (with a few additions as well!): Three main points: 1) The Reality of the conflict, [...] With our recent focus on the Lord’s Prayer during our parish meetings I thought it might be helpful to mention a few books on prayer that are worth reading and considering. Of course, it should go without saying but I’ll say it anyway–not everything in any of these books is infallible! But these books are all [...] The air waves are full of remembrances of the first moon launch 4o years ago. It still amazes me that we tiny humans put a few men up on that white orb we see most nights. On the radio today I heard again the count down of the launch and it caused me to [...] “Christianity, therefore, is perhaps the most materialistic of the world’s faiths. Jesus’s miracles were not so much violations of the natural order, but a restoration of the natural order. God did not create a world with blindness, leprosy, hunger, and death in it. Jesus’s miracles were signs that someday all these corruptions of his [...] We are getting ready to embark on our Parish gatherings this week, and many have been asking “what is Parish?”, and “why are we doing it now?”. What follows is an attempt to address those questions in the context of our local DNA at Emmanuel Covenant Church. These are notes from a Bible study given by [...] We started our journey through Ephesians this last Sunday. We’re calling the series, All Things New in Christ. This is to emphasize the Christ-centered approach of this wonderful book. All the blessings of the heavenly realms (1.3) are mediated through Christ Jesus (1.3-14). All of human history is moving toward God’s great [...] During worship this day we again engaged in that most wonderous practice of communal recitation of the Nicence Creed (yeah, I know, it’s technically the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed with the filoque but that’s a lot to go in the bulletin). I was reminded of the words of Luke Timothy Johnson in his book The Creed: What [...] This is a bat between the eyes for men, [...] |
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