Elohim Story Lectionary 29 May 2016 God Creates (Genesis 1) The Word of God Appears to Abram (Genesis 15:1; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 18) The Word of the Lord Appears to Elijah (1 Kings 19) The Word of the Lord Calls Samuel (1 Samuel 3) Psalm 33: Creator God Psalm...
Giving Blood A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching by Leonard Sweet “There’s no blood on the pulpit this morning.” This is what Mabel Boggs Sweet, mother of Leonard Sweet — the author of Giving Blood: A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching (Zondervan,2014)– would...
Lord, I don’t want to be blinded by my ideas, my vision. My life is yours . . .I submit my will and my desires to you, because my soul knows that you alone can satisfy my every longing. Success and failure within my work means nothing outside of you. I don’t even want...
The Mind of a Futurist “Putting out fires” is our default setting. There is always an email to send, a phone call to make, a buzzing, vibrating or beeping cell phone to distract and captivate us. The future is delivered to us second by second and it is easy to be the...
The wonder and mystery of Pentecost signals something big – something new. But, unlike Advent or Easter, Pentecost is not a season of the liturgical year. That is because, although Pentecost is both big, and new, it is actually the culmination of the entirety of the...
