Blogging Towards Sunday, May 29, 2016
2 Corinthians 2:1-15 Forgiveness. We have countless cultural sayings around this challenging action. Is it something that we give only when deserved? Is it intimately tied with forgetting what needs to … Continue reading
Presbyteri-What? Class 6: Putting it all together
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER. Why are you Presbyterian? What does it mean that we, as a church community, are? Before we answer that question, let’s refresh our memory on … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, May 22, 2016
2 Corinthians 1:1-11 (Downloadable PDF study guide of the text) “Lives Matter” is a political slogan zeitgeist for our times. Different adjectives are placed before the noun to focus the … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, May 15, 2016
Acts 2:1-4 & 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 “Where is God?” “If there is a God, why won’t God help me?” These are common feelings and vocabulary that we use in our … Continue reading
Blogging towards Sunday, May 8, 2016
1 Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57 & Isaiah 25:6-10 Death and Taxes are supposedly the two things we cannot escape. In today’s passage, Paul talks to the church in Corinth about … Continue reading
Presbyteri-What? Class 5 “Discipline: doing it decently and in order”
DISCIPLINE. It’s the theological word we use to describe the community wide responsibility of the church for sharing faithful Christian life. It’s not just an extraordinary action when someone steals … Continue reading
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