Jun

Making Sense of Michael

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

Walking through the Publix parking lot last night to pick up Sammy’s birthday cake a parishoner asked me what I thought about the death of Michael Jackson. Hmm. Not exactly the question I was anticipating in that moment. Never-the-less, a good question. The global outpouring of grief and affection certainly indicates that his music resonated [...]

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Jun

Devotional #41

Posted by Steve Published in Devotional

Question 41: Why was he also “buried”? Answer: Thereby to prove that he was really dead (a). (a) Matthew 27:59-60: And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the [...]

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Jun

Steve’s July 2009 Congregational Letter

Posted by Steve Published in Congregational Letters, St. Andrew's, TEC/General Convention, _samp

One of the greatest pastoral sadnesses, and, in an odd way, privileges, I experience is sitting with spouses whose marriage vows have been abandoned by their partner in favor of another, more interesting, lover.

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Jun

Words Cannot Describe

Posted by Steve Published in Video

A strange tribute to a strange man:

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Jun

Friday Morning Video

Posted by Steve Published in Empowered Living, Theology, Video, _samp

A well-done, contemporary movie on an amazing man, Martin Luther. Here’s a clip of Luther before the Diet of Worms:

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Jun

Death is not Dying

Posted by Steve Published in Empowered Living

Not too long ago I ran across – quite accidentally – a video of a young woman named Rachel Barkey. Rachel is dying from cancer. Earlier in the spring she gave a talk at her church entitled Death is not dying. It was powerfully moving. It was made more moving when I’d mentioned it on our Alpha USA leadership team’s monthly [...]

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Jun

Oh, Happy Day

Posted by Steve Published in Scripture

In honor of John Calvin’s 500th birthday Baker Books has re-released his 22 volume commentary series on the Bible. Incredibly, they are available for only $119 on Amazon ($70.00 off list). My copies just arrived!

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Jun

Brian Regan and Preaching

Posted by Steve Published in Video

On a rainy Saturday at a men’s retreat, a year-and-a-half ago, Kurtz Smith popped in a DVD of a comedian named, Brian Regan. The sun came out. He was hilarious. He was also clean. For a little while, there was a time when he injected a bit of sketchy material into his routines but, as [...]

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Jun

A Funny Little Story about Hymns and Praise Songs

Posted by Steve Published in Just For Fun

Andy Piercy used this story in his New Wine workshop this past weekend. It was – to me, anyway – weepingly amusing. An old farmer went to the city one weekend and attended the big city church. He came home and his wife asked him how it was. “Well,” said the farmer. “It was good. [...]

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