Monthly Archives: September 2009
An (un)Godly Calling?
Posted September 28, 2009 – 12:03 pm in: Messages[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Last Monday I sat down to prepare a message on Jesus’ most important parable: the Sower and the Seed. As I studied the parable I saw the importance of Isaiah 6 to the meaning of the story: in all three gospels, Isaiah 6 is the centerpiece.
We’re going to tackle [...]
Who Are You?
Posted September 21, 2009 – 11:36 am in: Messages[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
This is the second of Jesus’ two stories about grace. While both parables make the same main point (we’ve been forgiven much, so we need to forgive others), the narrative that frames this second brief parable contributes a lot of depth to the point. This Sunday we worked around [...]
Time Spent with Jesus
Posted September 14, 2009 – 11:19 am in: Messages[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Pastor Wendy spoke this Sunday while myself and a bunch of men skipped out to attend our annual retreat at Silver Birches Camp.
Have you ever skipped to the end of a book and read the last page first? While I usually avoid such a practice, a line from [...]
Stories about Grace: The Unmerciful Servant
Posted September 8, 2009 – 2:19 pm in: Messages[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Last fall we looked at the stories Jesus told about discipleship. This week we started looking at the first of two stories Jesus told about grace: the parable of the unmerciful servant. We tackled this text in four parts:
Why did Peter ask Jesus if seven times was enough forgiveness?
We [...]
An Interesting Sunday
Posted September 1, 2009 – 10:00 am in: MessagesThere’s no message to post from this Sunday, because I didn’t end up preaching—which is very odd for me! Here’s what happened:
As I was finishing the worship set, I felt like we should take some time and pray for each other’s needs. We shared our requests and assigned different people to pray for each [...]
