Living by the Word - June, 2012

Living by the Word

Sunday, July 8, 2012

2 Samuel 5:1–5, 9–10; Mark 6:1–13

Jun 26, 2012 by Douglass Key

The GPS got us lost three times as my wife and I drove over the mountain trying to find a restaurant that our innkeepers called the best in the county. When we finally found the “town,” there was no town to speak of but only a bend in the road, a bridge, a couple of houses, a railroad trestle and an old general store.

Living by the Word

Sunday, July 1, 2012

2 Corinthians 8:7–15

Jun 19, 2012 by Douglass Key

In the languid days of midsummer, when church financial income is at low ebb, it is a comfort to remember that Paul too had stewardship issues in his churches. It’s not a new phenomenon. It turns out that every generation of Christians has managed to find something else to do with their hard-earned money besides offer it to the work of the body of Christ.

Living by the Word

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Mark 4:35–41

Jun 12, 2012 by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Recently I was talking with a colleague about the nature of God and how sometimes we lean too exclusively toward the transcendence of God—God is mighty and distant and all powerful, concerned only with judging us.

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Ezekiel 17:22–24; Mark 4:26–34

Jun 05, 2012 by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Recently I was telling a pastoral colleague that I have no idea how people become preachers without having first been stand-up comics. In the early 1990s when I was getting clean and sober, I worked for a few years as a stand-up comic; getting paid to be caustic on stage was cheaper than paying for therapy and had much the same result.