tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204138252024-03-14T01:02:13.866-04:00The Confessing TigerThings I think you read....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-36039987527077789942014-05-06T04:12:00.000-04:002014-05-06T04:14:50.561-04:00Jerusalem Pilgrimage Post 1<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Shalom Y'all</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We arrived yestrday after a loooong plane ride in a 747 in which I slept little but that was good because I was able to sleep well after we arrived and have no problems with jet lag. . We are at St. George’s college in East Jerusalem. It is the Palestininan part of the city. It is the second day of the Jweish Independence day whiich is also known ast the day of disaster tot the Arabs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St. Geeorges is amazing and beuatiful. I will post pics. the beds are confortable and the weather is similar to that in SC. We have had an orientation (I’m typing this during the talk). Today we are heading to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher which is there the people here think Jesus was crucified. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We began the day with Communion. The priests here are all TEC. Not much else to say yet. I will continue to post my diary and pictures here on this blog. I will be posting while you are asleep so it will be waiting for you every morning. I can recieve email so to to the Holy Trinity wevsite and find the link to my emaill there. </span><a href="http://www.htchas.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.htchas.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. God bless you and keep you in HIs loving embrace.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-57403180113412273372013-02-25T20:05:00.000-05:002013-02-25T20:05:25.421-05:00Bishop Mark Lawrence's Remarks to Old St. Andrew's Parish, Charleston SC<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xJydl_A2ecU/USwJ_SUfq5I/AAAAAAAABi4/vkm4eG7Jpck/s1600/bishL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xJydl_A2ecU/USwJ_SUfq5I/AAAAAAAABi4/vkm4eG7Jpck/s1600/bishL.jpg" /></a><i>"If you were to ask me, what areas of Christian theology have the Diocese of South Carolina and the national Episcopal Church been moving at odds, I would say they would be in the areas of (1) the trust and worthiness of Holy Scripture as the word of God containing everything necessary for our salvation, and (2) the uniqueness and universality of Jesus Christ as the unique God-man who is the savior of the human race, regardless of cultural background, religious affiliation, color, race, creed, or sexual orientation, who everybody has to decide whether they will follow or not. As he divided the thieves on the cross, between the one who continued to rail and condemn him, and the other thief who said, “Remember me when you enter into your kingdom,” to which our Lord said, “Today you will be with me in paradise,” every human being gets behind one of those thieves and their eternal destiny. We all enter into paradise behind the thief who repented, or behind the thief who did not. Since we all get in line behind a thief, everybody loses their bragging rights, of their moral goodness and virtue and deservedness. We are saved by grace, or we’re not saved at all. We either get bleeding mercy or justice. As for me and my house, give me bleeding mercy. But that uniqueness of Jesus Christ is absolutely essential."</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.oldstandrews.org/pdf/Bishop_Lawrence%27s_Remarks_to_OSA_021013.pdf" target="_blank">Click here for the entire .pdf file of the transcript.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-63485415505677904392013-01-08T08:56:00.001-05:002013-01-08T08:56:01.572-05:00Editorial On Abusing Matthew 18 by D. A. Carson<i><span class="author-bio">D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.</span> </i>[and he rocks! (Tiger edit)]<br />
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Several years ago I wrote a fairly restrained critique of the emerging
church movement as it then existed, before it morphed into its present
diverse configurations.<a class="sup" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=20413825" name="a1_top">1</a>
That little book earned me some of the angriest, bitterness-laced
emails I have ever received—to say nothing, of course, of the blog
posts. There were other responses, of course—some approving and
grateful, some thoughtful and wanting to dialogue. But the ones that
displayed the greatest intensity were those whose indignation was white
hot because I had not first approached privately those whose positions I
had criticized in the book. What a hypocrite I was—criticizing my
brothers on ostensible biblical grounds when I myself was not following
the Bible’s mandate to observe a certain procedure nicely laid out in <a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Matt 18.15–17" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt%2018.15%E2%80%9317" target="_blank">Matt 18:15–17</a>.<br />
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Find the rest <a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/editorial_on_abusing_matthew_18" target="_blank">here</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-56204110339405860552012-12-16T16:32:00.005-05:002012-12-16T16:38:26.170-05:00A powerful article about my friend Sarah (Sally) and the tragedy of suicide.<h1 class="story-title">
James Island family faces holidays after death by suicide</h1>
<a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/apps/pbcs.dll/personalia?ID=172">Jennifer Berry Hawes</a><br />
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Caroline Ball, the baby, loved to paint and draw and
dance ballet. She and her sister, Sarah, sang in the church choir.
Theirs was, in so many ways, an ideal childhood.</div>
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remain with their father in a family robbed of its pieces by physical
and mental illness. In 2009, they lost their mother to complications
from a stroke.</div>
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In 2010, they lost the oldest of the four sisters to breast cancer. She was just 54.</div>
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And this year, they lost Caroline, the youngest daughter. They lost Caroline to herself, to the emptiness she had yet to fill.</div>
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<a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20121216/PC12/121219591/1165/james-island-family-faces-holidays-after-death-by-suicide" target="_blank">Read it all </a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-66455582717600421562012-12-14T23:19:00.005-05:002012-12-15T04:23:22.691-05:00A Prayer for the People of Newtown CT and all who mourn today.<span class="userContent">Gracious Lord, </span><br />
<span class="userContent">in our darkest hours we, your
children, either cling to you for comfort and solace or we hide our
faces from you as we hold you responsible for the evil of this world.
Help us to remember that the tears you cried over Lazarus mingle with
our own on this day of mourning and anguish. Help us to remember that
you have received these innocents into your loving arms. Pour out your
mercy on those whose loved ones were lost and give us your grace and
wisdom and comfort as we seek your will for our lives as living members
of Your Son, Our Savior, Jesus Christ, the lover of souls and defeater
of death. Amen.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">May the Lord bless you and keep you. </span><br />
<span class="userContent">David Dubay+ 2012 </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-42914188971872661812012-11-20T00:01:00.001-05:002012-11-20T00:01:44.351-05:00Diocese of South Carolina Special Convention: Bishop's Address<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fm-LyA9k4Ec?fs=1" width="480"></iframe><br />
45 minutes of gold.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-80177779972105279702012-11-17T19:46:00.002-05:002012-11-17T20:04:47.649-05:00A new day in the Diocese of S.C.<span class="title" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 27px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Diocese of South Carolina Turns the Page; Looks Forward</span><br />
<span class="subTitle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Special Convention Approves Canonical and Constitutional Amendments Regarding Disassociation</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fffeff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="background-color: black;">Today, Saturday, November 17, 2012, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina met in Special Convention at the “mother church of the Diocese,” historic St. Philip’s Church in Charleston. There, an overwhelming majority passed three resolutions.</span> </span><br />
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<a href="http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4961327fa871e140b6aecfe0e&id=efa51520d0&e=c9a66092de" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Here for the rest </span></span></a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-15099767932263245832012-10-25T09:27:00.001-04:002012-10-25T09:27:22.998-04:00What is going on in the Diocese of South Carolina?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Here is a link to a helpful document from the <a href="http://diocese./">Diocese.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Goudy Old Style;">Gracious Father, we pray for they holy Catholic Church. Fill it<br />
with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt,<br />
purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in any thing it is<br />
amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in<br />
want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake<br />
of Jesus Christ thy Son our Savior. <i>Amen. BCP 1979</i></span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-12082789360697764352012-09-12T13:06:00.003-04:002012-09-12T13:12:10.532-04:00What really happened at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul?<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NyjqidYCr7s/UFDCWZJ3EiI/AAAAAAAABbk/V_-m4SXI3mE/s1600/logo-left.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 95px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NyjqidYCr7s/UFDCWZJ3EiI/AAAAAAAABbk/V_-m4SXI3mE/s400/logo-left.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787339211136242210" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />God Bless Dean Dickinson and the congregation of Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul.<br /><br /><a href="http://your-cathedral.org/statement-from-the-dean-false-report/">CLICK HERE FOR SOME TRUE FACTS!</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-81018165824136984482012-05-25T23:39:00.002-04:002012-05-25T23:39:52.185-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What is going on at Holy Trinity, Charleston this weekend?<br />
<a href="http://www.abcnews4.com/story/18628496/christian-motorycle-group-rides-into-holy-city#.T8BNvI80Ujw.facebook" target="_blank">Click here to find out.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-55682600882233361202012-03-22T13:15:00.002-04:002012-03-22T13:18:23.888-04:00Faith in the Storm 4:A life saved. (Matt Pridgen)<h2>
<a href="http://holytrinitycharleston.podbean.com/2012/03/22/faith-in-the-storm-4a-life-saved-matt-pridgen/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Faith in the Storm 4:A life saved. (Matt Pridgen)">Faith in the Storm 4:A life saved. (Matt Pridgen)</a></h2>
Holy Trinity, Charleston's 2012 Lenten Series is entitled: Faith under fire...life in a
Stormy world. This is the 4th in that series. In it, Mr. Matt Pridgen
(www.mattpridgen.com) tells of how the Lord saved him when he had no
idea he needed to be saved. A powerful and moving and
....odd....story. May it bless you and point you to Jesus.<br />
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<a href="http://holytrinitycharleston.podbean.com/2012/03/22/faith-in-the-storm-4a-life-saved-matt-pridgen/" target="_blank">Here for Audio of the talk</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.htchas.com/" target="_blank">Here for Holy Trinity's Website </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mattpridgen.com/" target="_blank">Here for Matt's Website </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-54260671772902455322012-03-22T13:13:00.002-04:002012-03-22T13:13:44.425-04:00Faith in the Storm: The loss of a child. (Brenda and Brett McBride)<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L7mrl_GBfaQ/T2tdvDm-CXI/AAAAAAAABXo/hHxPBezlLfg/s1600/htlogoBd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L7mrl_GBfaQ/T2tdvDm-CXI/AAAAAAAABXo/hHxPBezlLfg/s1600/htlogoBd.jpg" /></a>From Holy Trinity, Charleston's 2012 Lenten Series in entitled: Faith under fire...life in a
stormy world. This is the 3rd in that series but the first one with a
working recording available. Brenda and Brett McBride tell there heart
breaking story of loss and their glorious story of healing and
redemption in Christ.<br />
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<a href="http://holytrinitycharleston.podbean.com/2009/05/04/faith-in-the-storm-the-loss-of-a-child-brenda-and-brett-mcbride/" target="_blank">Here for the audio. </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.htchas.com/" target="_blank">Here for church website</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-23250850293735227892012-03-16T10:34:00.001-04:002012-03-16T10:34:19.217-04:00Soon to come... Sunday sermons from Holy Trinity, Charleston SCKeep checking back.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-7733991324276665012012-03-16T09:34:00.001-04:002012-03-16T09:35:33.206-04:00How To Receive Criticism Like A Champ by Mark Altrogge on March 14, 2012<h2>
I don’t love to be criticized or critiqued. I must admit, I don’t love “input.”</h2>
I think this goes back to my Intro to Design class in college. One
day Dr. Grinchwold (named changed) walked past my desk, looked
disdainfully at my project, a 3-dimensional paper fly (which was
brilliant, by the way), and muttered something. “Excuse me, what did
you say?” I asked. To which he replied for the whole class to hear, “I
said, ‘Do you have a match?’ Because you should burn that thing.” I
was stunned, mortified and humiliated. I wanted to say, “If I had a
match I’d light your pants on fire,” but I didn’t.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theblazingcenter.com/2012/03/how-to-receive-criticism-part-1.html" target="_blank">Read more.... </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-54658214063161293082012-03-16T09:26:00.005-04:002012-03-16T09:26:50.183-04:00Heath Lambert: Gracious Candor: A Tutorial in Speaking Truth in Love...Now of course there is <a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Ephesians 4.15" data-version="niv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/niv/Ephesians%204.15" target="_blank">Ephesians 4:15</a> to consider and apply: <em>Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ</em>. If we are to grow up in Christ in the context of our conversations, the apostle Paul commands two things about our words... <a href="http://biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/blogs/2012/03/14/gracious-candor-a-tutorial-in-speaking-truth-in-love/" target="_blank"> here for entire post</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-72062104722250430892012-02-12T14:56:00.001-05:002012-02-12T14:58:47.789-05:00Links for Parent Internet Safety Workshop at Good Shepherd, Charleston SC<br />
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Enuff PC</div>
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Covenant Eyes</div>
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Facebook Privacy Explanation and settings. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-47426663989994911462012-01-25T10:23:00.002-05:002012-01-25T10:25:45.809-05:00Mere Anglicanism Conference 2012 talks now online. (Anglican TV)For those of us who were not able to attend the recent MERE ANGLICANISM conference, here are a number of the talks that are now on line... Thanks to Anglicantv.com<br />
<a href="http://www.anglican.tv/category/tags/events/mere-anglicanism-2012" target="_blank">Mere Anglicanism 2012</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-27060786002725014202011-12-31T23:51:00.003-05:002011-12-31T23:54:15.846-05:00The New Year is here....<br />
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My prayer is for the Lord to grant you a Happy and Blessed New Year. Even though I'm a reformed and uber Protestant...I leave you with this quote from the Pope.<br />
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<i><br />Yes, joy enters the hearts of those who put themselves at the service of the lowly and poor. God abides in those who love like this and their souls rejoice. If, instead, people make an idol of happiness, they lose their way and it is truly hard for them to find the joy of which Jesus speaks.</i> Pope Benedict XVIUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-91939482509406838262011-12-15T11:59:00.002-05:002011-12-15T11:59:46.255-05:00For those of you wondering what happened at the Province IV Bishop's meeting with Bishop Lawrence of teh Diocese of South Carolina click <a href="http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/40219/" target="_blank">here </a>for not much on the subject. <i>Thanks to Canon Harmon</i><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-23335323298818242292011-11-30T18:15:00.001-05:002011-11-30T18:15:42.663-05:00Bishop Lawrence Writes to the Diocese of South Carolina About Disciplinary Board Decision<br />
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</script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-53756646186973403032011-11-05T08:46:00.004-04:002011-11-05T08:46:58.172-04:00Blessed are...<div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix">
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Blessed are those who
hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled (Matthew 5:6).
Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are neither “do-gooders”
seeking to establish their own rightness before God and humans, nor even
those who work for “social justice,” worthy as their causes may be, for
both activities too often lead to further division and to the
self-righteousness that destroys the integrity of human community.
Hungering and thirsting for righteousness describes those who yearn for
the full restoration of broken relationships, who feel the ache and
frustration of aloneness in the world, and who are willing to make
themselves vulnerable to those who are enemies and strangers. Jesus
promises that this hope will be satisfied in God’s reign.<br />
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Saunders, Stanley P. (2011-04-13). Preaching the Gospel of Matthew (p. 33). Westminster John Knox Press. Kindle Edition.<br />
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(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Preaching-Gospel-Matthew-ebook/dp/B004WDYKFM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320497107&sr=8-2" target="_blank">buy this book here</a>)</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-19325255043459253762011-10-05T09:14:00.000-04:002011-10-05T09:14:59.007-04:00An Urgent Message from the Bishop and Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.<br />
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It is also found at the <a href="http://www.dioceseofsc.org/">Diocesan Website.</a><br />
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Pray for the Diocese of SC. Our intent is to stay in TEC as an orthodox diocese.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-36972111974583426102011-09-01T11:15:00.001-04:002011-09-01T11:17:10.444-04:00Spiritual but Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me.<span class="mainbody4"><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">Even from the UCC this is a good message... C.T.+</span>
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<br />"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it."
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<br /><strong>Reflection by Lillian Daniel</strong>
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<br />On airplanes, I dread the conversation with the person who finds out I am a minister and wants to use the flight time to explain to me that he is "spiritual but not religious." Such a person will always share this as if it is some kind of daring insight, unique to him, bold in its rebellion against the religious status quo.
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<br />Next thing you know, he's telling me that he finds God in the sunsets. These people always find God in the sunsets. And in walks on the beach. Sometimes I think these people never leave the beach or the mountains, what with all the communing with God they do on hilltops, hiking trails and . . . did I mention the beach at sunset yet?
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<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20413825.post-75170750113673546332011-07-22T23:59:00.007-04:002011-07-23T00:20:55.508-04:00What I'm reading...Here are two books that I'm really digging right now. Plus if you have a kindle or use kindle for pc the ESV study bible (around $80 in book form) is just under $10 in kindle form...and I'm told by my mother in nook and nook for pc format as well. You can cut and paste from it with instant foot noting...<br /><br />Okay..the first wonderbook is:<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Comeback-Churches-Turned-Around-Yours/dp/0805445366">Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned around and yours can too.</a></span><br />Stetzer and Dawson<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Second uber reading is:<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" class="title" href="http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Selection-Archived-Articles-ebook/dp/B005ALRZLG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311394377&sr=1-1">Leadership: A Selection of Archived Articles</a></span><br /><br />Forward by Bishop Howe.<br /><br />Good stuff...doesn't cloud brain and excites the soul.<br /><br />God's grace and peace to you.<br /><br />Tiger+Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0