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What If Islam Wasn’t The Only Religion Defined In Terms Of Submission?
Through the years I’ve had friends and close acquaintances who are Muslim. As a prison chaplain I worked alongside a Muslim Imam. In every instance, I’ve always noticed how I actually have MORE in...
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Pastor Dad: Perfect, Just Perfect
Rather than break my promise (reading Mark Driscoll’s crap ebook, Pastor Dad, in a charitable spirit that’s open to learning) I decided to avoid my promise. That’s right, I’ve (e)shelved the book. So...
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God Doesn’t Give a Damn about Your Sin
Last week I started a sermon series called Leaving Left Behind Behind, aiming to deconstruct words like ‘satan’ and ‘rapture’ that turn many people off to Christianity. This weekend our scripture is...
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Oprah: The Antichrist
“But I say to you: love your enemies…Be perfect therefore, as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” – Jesus Follow @cmsvoteup
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Jesus’ Enemy-Loving Offensive
Here’s my sermon from this weekend. While we’ve been taking a look this summer at how Paul uses the Psalms in his letter to the Romans, I thought the Psalm he uses in Romans 11, Psalm 94, warranted...
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Jesus Saves: from the American Dream
Here’s a homily written by friend, congregant and seminary student Jimmy Owsley (above…no that’s not me). He wrote this sermon for our evening worship in Guatemala during our mission there in July....
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How I’m Voting Tomorrow
Yeah, sorry for the tease, but I don’t think so. With the polls closing tomorrow here’s some pastoral, Kingdom-focused wisdom from yours truly…. Every now and then I flirt with the belief that...
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#Blessed
I continued our Unfinished sermon series this by taking a look at the Beatitudes in Matthew 5.1-14, specifically ‘Blessed are the poor.’ If there’s a danger in romanticizing the poor, I think there’s...
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To the Islamic Cyber Terrorists who Hacked My Blog
A Eucharistic Meditation ~ Dear $@#holes, It’s me, Jason- Tamed Cynic. You know, the Christian whose blog you hacked. What’s that? You don’t remember me? There were thousands of other random,...
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Isn’t ‘Love Your Enemies’ an Impossible Ideal?
For the past 18 months, I’ve been working on writing a catechism, a distillation of the faith into concise questions and answers with brief supporting scriptures that could be the starting point for a...
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Prayer for Omar Mateen
I’m recovering from 3 plus days spent at my little nook of Methodism’s Annual Conference. Given that nearly a quarter of every dollar a United Methodist gives goes out the door of his or her...
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Praying for Nero and Our Enemies But Not the Donald?
This past weekend Rev. Dr. William Barber described praying for Trump “theological malpractice bordering on heresy.” Certainly, if what Rev. Barber has in mind is the sort of QVC Christendom prayer...
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Sermon Illustration
Exodus 20, Matthew 5.38-48 Christian de Cherge was a French Catholic monk in charge of a Trappist abbey in Algeria. A veteran of the French army, de Cherge grew up in an aristocratic family. After...
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