Sunday, December 28, 2014

Sermon: Into the Light

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This Advent, we began using Brian McLaren's book, We Make the Road by Walking , to shape sermons and worship, a pattern that will cont...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Drawn to the Story

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At churches all over the country, everything is almost ready for the special services tomorrow evening. Choirs are set to sing. Boxes of c...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Hoping in Poetry

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A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse,      and a branch shall grow out of his roots.   Isaiah 11:1 A stump, a remnant of ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Light, Darkness, and Expendable Children

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It's happened again; children slaughtered. This time it was a Taliban terror attack at a school in Pakistan, but it's an old, old ...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Multi-Directional Jesus

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For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and...

Sermon video: Keeping Herod in Christmas

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Audios of sermons and worship available on the FCPC website .
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Sermon: Keeping Herod in Christmas

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This Advent, we began using Brian McLaren's book, We Make the Road by Walking , to shape sermons and worship, a pattern that will contin...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Torture and Self-Deception - Confession and Hope

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"A Brief Statement of Faith" is the newest creedal statement in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)'s The Book of Confessions . ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

No One Gets What They Deserve

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"Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." John 8:7 I wonder if this ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Sin, Advent, Race, and "Immoral Society"

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Many years ago, I typed an agenda for a December meeting of the Session at the church I was serving. (Sessions are the governing councils ...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Sermon video - God's Possibility: Poem Versus Memo

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Audios of sermons and worship available on the FCPC website.
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Sermon - God's Possibility: Poem Versus Memo

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As usual in worship, the Scripture readings that preceded the sermon were read from the lectern and pulpit. But on this Sunday Abby Hendrick...