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No One Marries Their Soul Mate
No One Marries Their Soul Mate In fact, as I pointed out in my sermon this weekend, you never even marry the right person. When teaching about Heaven, I frequently stress the point that ‘soul’ is a...
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The G(od) Spot: Mark Driscoll Reading in the Wrong Garden
For our sermon series on marriage, I’m blogging my way through the Bible’s erogenous zone: The Song of Songs. Today, I’m still reflecting on 2.1-17. As I mentioned earlier, in chapter 2, verse 3 of...
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Marriage is not ἀδιάφορα
ἀδιάφορα, or adiaphora to those of you who don’t use Greek, is the theological term for: “things indifferent.” How can you tell the difference between differences which make a difference and...
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Wanted: Your Thoughts for a Sermon on the Marriage Debate
This weekend we will conclude our marriage sermon series, Love to Stay, by discussing the current marriage debate in the larger Church, particularly around the issue of homosexuality. Adam Hamilton,...
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A Case Against Gay Marriage
This weekend I will conclude our marriage sermon series, Love to Stay, by discussing the marriage debate in the larger Church and unpacking the divergent perspectives in a fair way. To prepare, I...
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A Case for Gay Marriage
This weekend I will conclude our marriage sermon series, Love to Stay, by discussing the marriage debate in the larger Church and unpacking the divergent perspectives in a fair way. To prepare, I...
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Let No One Tear Asunder
This weekend I concluded our marriage sermon series by reflecting on how the issue of marriage, in particular homosexuality, threatens to split the United Methodist Church. In it, I tried to survey the...
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50 Shades of Mysticism
We just wrapped our winter sermon series on marriage and love. Too often when it comes to love, sex and passion people presume that the Christian tradition only has list of ‘thou shalt nots.’ On the...
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The Way Forward for the UMC: Getting Rid of Her Pastors
Last week I received a book in the mail, gratis: Seeing Black and White in a World of Gray. In both its title and cover design, the book presents itself as the doppleganger to Adam Hamilton’s ‘Seeing...
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Methodists Should Just Reunify with the Catholic Church
As I mentioned in previous posts, Last week I received a book in the mail, gratis: Seeing Black and White in a World of Gray. In both its title and cover design, it’s meant to be the rejoinder to Adam...
View ArticleThe G(od) Spot: First Base
For our winter sermon series on marriage and relationships, I’ve decided to blog my way through the Bible’s erogenous zone: The Song of Songs. I’ve loathed much of contemporary Christian music not so...
View ArticleThe G(od) Spot: Forgiveness
For our winter sermon series on marriage and relationships, I’ve decided to blog my way through the Bible’s erogenous zone: The Song of Songs. 1.6 Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun...
View ArticleThe G(od) Spot: How Love Changes Us
For our sermon series on marriage and relationships I decided to blog my way through the Bible’s own Skinemax Channel: The Song of Songs. In 1.9-17 of the Song of Songs, the young woman and her lover...
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Here’s the weekend’s sermon from our series on marriage and relationships. The text is 2 Corinthians 3.12-18. To illustrate Paul’s point about us being transformed from degree of glory to the next, I...
View ArticleThe G(od) Spot: What ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Tells Us About God
For our sermon series on marriage, I’m blogging my way through the Bible’s erogenous zone: The Song of Songs. Today, it’s 2.1-17. “I’ll have what she’s having.” I don’t even need to cite the movie; you...
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Help a Holy Family This Advent
Still on medical leave, I’m not back to work yet, but you wouldn’t know it from my Inbox. My post from last week on the refugee crisis provoked a number of protestations that I was playing politics.I...
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Can’t We Just Move Beyond the Gay Debate?
The quadrennial global gathering of my tribe of Christians, United Methodism, begins their ten day exercise in ‘Holy Conferencing’ today in Portland, Oregon. “Holy Conferencing” most often = Roberts...
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Conservatives are Right: Welcome of Gay Christians IS a Matter of Sanctification
The United Methodist Church’s global gathering began yesterday in Portland, Oregon. As it kicked off, over 100 United Methodist clergy symbolically came out of the closet in protest to the...
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