Jesus Got Mad? | A Sermon on John 2:13-25 | Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Narrative Lectionary Text: John 2:13-25 The first few seconds of this audio are hard to hear because I was in the Narthex throwing tables around and screaming. That’s why I ask the congregation to check their bodies. I scared a few people. 🙂 This audio also...The Resurrection Plant – Amazing BBC Video
Tonight I teach the catechism students about the last part of Jesus’ story. Of course, the most amazing and important part of the story is that Jesus rose from the dead. The power of resurrection is the power of life itself. The apostle Paul states that...
Wind and Waves Illustration in #ProCreate on the #iPad
This is an illustration I did for Catechism last night. It was Part Two of a three-week series on the life of Jesus. I love the fact that I can be in the office at church, take out my iPad, open up ProCreate, do the illustration, upload it to Dropbox, then insert it...Water into Wine | A Sermon about God’s Abundance from John 2:1-11
Narrative Lectionary Text: John 2:1-11 I did not write a manuscript for this sermon. I had a basic outline and then went for it. Not best practice, but sometimes that’s how a pastor’s week works. 🙂 I make reference to a link to Walter Brueggemann’s...Read moreIndeed we find ourselves unequal, except with much difficulty, to achieving a scientific comprehension of what is accessible to our bodily senses or of what we ourselves are in the inner man. Yet for all that there is no effrontery in burning to know, out of faithful piety, the divine and inexpressible truth that is above us, provided the mind is fired by the grace of our creator and savior, and not inflated by arrogant confidence in its own powers. ((Augustine. The Trinity. Translated by Edmund Hill. Vol. 5 The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Edited by John E. Rotelle. Brooklyn, NY: New City Press, 1990. Book V, Prologue.))
A Funny Animation that Names Classic Trinitarian Heresies
I am trying to craft the presentation of the Social Trinity for my cohort next month, so I decided to do a web search for “Trinity Made Simple.” This animation is one of the first hits. Fun stuff.God’s Abundance and the Myth of Scarcity: Revisiting Walter Breuggemann’s Teaching
The text this weekend is the story of Jesus’ first miracle in John 2:1-11. Mary prompts Jesus to fix the embarrassing situation at the wedding and he transforms water into wine. This is the first sign of God’s kingdom. I think this story is a sign of...
