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
Presbyter-What? Session 4
Class 4 :: May 1, 2016 :: “Worship” WORSHIP. It’s what we call our work together on Sunday morning. And it’s also what we can call every moment of … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, May 1, 2016
1 Corinthians 12:31-14:1 Heard at weddings, printed on countless T-shirts, collectibles and chotskies, the revolutionary definition of love that Paul writes to the ancient church in Corinth (chapter 13) often … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, April 24, 2016
Acts 18:1-4 & 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 We can’t help but see the problems around us in what seems to be a broken, or least highly paralyzed, government. We face a myriad of … Continue reading
Presbyteri-What? Session 3
POLITY is the system of rules, based upon collective beliefs and shared values that govern an association or group of people. The way that we organize ourselves as … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, April 17, 2016
Acts 17:1-9 & 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 We’re perhaps so accustomed to church that we don’t know what it means. It’s not just a place we go. It’s not just what we do … Continue reading
Presbyteri-What? Class 2 resources
THEOLOGY – means the study of (-ology in Greek) God (theos in Greek). It’s how we think and talk about God – based upon scripture, life experience, Christian tradition and … Continue reading
Presbyteri-What? Class 1 Resources
April 10, 2016 – 9:30-10:15 am @ CAPC Oakland SESSION 1: The Reformation: our rebirthing of church as re-formed disciples from a protest movement: Our church tradition – Presbyterian (USA) – comes … Continue reading
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