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Blogging Towards Sunday, October 27, 2013

Matthew 20:1-16 What is grace?  Is it the goal or means of faith?  Is it the beginning of the end of knowing God?  Do we receive it or give it?  … Continue reading

October 22, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, October 20, 2013

Philippians 3:12-14 & Isaiah 43:16-21 We live in a time in which we are looking for some higher power to deliver us from our addictions, the brokenness and stuck-ness of … Continue reading

October 19, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, October 6, 2013

John 3:1-17   John 3:16 perhaps the most quoted verse of the Bible, whether by voice, painted on the faces of athletes, or held aloft on signs.  But when you … Continue reading

October 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, September 29, 2013

John 14:1-14 Confessing Christian faith can be challenging in the diverse pluralistic world – and city – which we call home.  Can we claim to know truth, or salvation, which … Continue reading

September 28, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, September 22, 2013

Mark 4:1-20   The Bible is actually a library – or collection of faith stories, or testimonies.  The Greek word “Biblia” literally means “library.”  How do you read the Bible?  … Continue reading

September 21, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, September 15, 2013

Mark 5:21-36 “Why me?” is a question we often ask ourselves in our suffering.  We don’t want to admit that suffering is an inevitable part of life, we struggle with … Continue reading

September 13, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, September 8, 2013

Questions for going deeper with the Scriptures Matthew 5:1-16, 33-37   The question posed for this morning is about commitment.  What does it mean to say yes as a Christian?  … Continue reading

September 6, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, September 1, 2013

    1 Corinthians 1:1-9 | John 17:20-26 The question posed for this morning is about saints, and why in the Catholic tradition they’re prayed to and revered, whereas in … Continue reading

August 30, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, August 25, 2013

Galatians 5:1, 13-26  Now days it seems like freedom is not usually associated by the secular world with religion.  Between radical fundamentalist terrorists who give their life for a promise, … Continue reading

August 22, 2013 · Leave a comment

Blogging Towards Sunday, July 28, 2013

Genesis 3:1-21  & Romans 8:28-39   Whether we call is violence, injustice, tyranny, war, draught, famine,  natural disaster, cancer or an accident, evil exists.  We can’t deny it.  Evil makes … Continue reading

July 24, 2013 · Leave a comment