watch?v=PWBJsQOmmGs&feature=player_embedded Last night, I closed my class by playing this song as folks followed the lyrics I had printed out for them. The music and words, we all thought, were profound, hopeful, and moving. Enjoy! All believing, all embracing Earth below and sky above. There will never be a power Greater than united love. O [...]
We United Methodists have a wonderful song in our hymnal with the title named above. The lyrics go like this: When our confidence is shaken in beliefs we thought secure, When the spirit in its sickness seeks but cannot find a cure, God is active in the tensions of a faith not yet mature. Solar [...]
Worship Service Sermon: The Binding of Isaac Special Music by J.P. VanHoy and Steve Kirby
OK, maybe SS is not dead, but it is certainly dying, in most places a long, lingering death. Perhaps the most merciful thing to do would be to just put it out of its misery! Many churches have done just that, replacing the traditional Sunday morning hour with a midweek evening featuring Christian education for [...]
You are not likely to hear this story regarding Pan Am Flight 103 on the regular news outlets. It is a far cry from anything else I have heard or read. Jim Swire’s daughter, Flora, was one of the passengers who died aboard the flight when it was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by terrorists [...]
In his recent book titled The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways Jesus is the Way, Eugene Petersen (translator of The Message) hit me between the eyes so many times that I emerged bruised and bloody! The worst punishment came from the chapter on sacrifice, which centers on Abraham and the binding of Isaac, [...]
Works and Words: We Need a Healing (Excerpted from a Speech by William Barber, President of the North Carolina NAACP and Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church) Too many Americans today are straining under the burden of two related trends: shrinking health care coverage and rising health care costs. Over the last decade, millions of Americans [...]
Homecoming 2009 Special guest speaker: Mr. Jerry Hancock of Men in Balance
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