Creation
Pulpit Fiction Podcast: Lectionary Podcast for Preachers, Seekers and Bible Geeks
Robb and Eric met in class at Eden Theological Seminary, got to know each other while playing volleyball on Eden's church league team, and became friends after the games over pizza, wings, beer, and Police Trainer at Smugala's.
Robb and Sarah and Eric and Nina spent almost every weekend together while they were in seminary, and are still able to get together every once in awhile. This picture was taken over Thanksgiving weekend, 2013. They share a common passion for justice, mercy, and an abiding love for Jesus. They also a share a love for good scotch, the Bears (we won't talk about baseball), Anchorman, The Office, and Star Wars.
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John 4 represents the founding narrative for the presence of a considerable number of Samaritans in the Johannine community....
Matthew 4:3-4
Church Health by Butch Odom
Panoramic Views of Faith and Health
Blog on Faith and Health
website now: https://churchhealth.org/church-health-daily-devotionals/
Received original blog from http://www.textweek.com/ ...
Parker Palmer Five Habits of the Heart
http://www.couragerenewal.org/habitsoftheheart/
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Philosophy and Worship
http://www.calvin.edu/cicw/resources/Philosophy_Worship.pdf...
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Dry BONES by Ken Sehested
http://www.prayerandpolitiks.org/litanies-prayers/2017/03/20/dry-bones.2523038...
Isaiah 40 - 66
This resource is a short analysis on the concept of name in Isa 40-66. It reveals how human beings universally are called by name, given an ultimate narrative and is deemed honorable by sheer existence. Further, it illuminates how human beings are intersubjectively connected and are responsible for each other in our differing proximate contexts....
John 21:1-14
http://www.crosswalknapa.org/blog/2017/4/28/the-worst-resurrection-story
The Resurrection Story can be told in many ways. ...
John 20:19-25
http://www.crosswalknapa.org/blog/2017/4/23/breathed-to-breathe
You are loved by God, animated by the very breath of God to carry you through, so that you may breathe life into people and situations where death threatens in myriad forms.
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Deuteronomy 10:17-21; Psalm 145; Hebrews 11:8-16; Matthew 5:43-48
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/stw/2013/06/13/independence-day-2013/
Interdependence Day and Independence Day
Independence Day, let’s also think of it as “Interdependence Day”; a day when we celebrate not only being free from unjust rule but also a day when we commit ourselves anew to extending liberty and justice to everyone who seeks it, without partiality.
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http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/sustaining-hope-face-climate-change
Climate Change Video with three different Protestant Churches...
http://paintedprayerbook.com/2016/07/18/blessing-when-the-world-is-ending/
Artwork By Painted Prayers Jan Richardson
Beautiful artwork and creative ideas for ministry...
http://paintedprayerbook.com/2016/07/27/blessing-for-getting-the-news/
Artwork and Poetry "Grace In The Dark"
When we get news from someone, death or other, this artwork touches a sweet place for the heart. Jan Richardson- poem as well. ...
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Psalm 10
https://faithelement.net/nice-france-teaching-guide/
A teaching guide and Resource on violence that had happened in France
Great Questions and How to discuss the Violence. ...
Mathew 5: 13-20
https://faithelement.net/9-06-salt-and-light/
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After searching for an opening Easter Acclamation that's progressive and cosmic in nature, and finding nothing that went where I'd like to take the congregation on Easter, I decided I'd just have to write one.
So, here's an acclamation/invocation that draws on themes found in the high Christology of Saint Paul (Colossians) and well as the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas; it's also drawn from the medieval mystics Meister Eckhart and Hildegard von Bingen, and the modern evolutionary theologians, Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry. I also hope it has some of the poetic flare of that great earth mystic, Saint John (Muir) of the Mountains. ...
http://sacredise.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/giftlife.pdf
Pentecost: God's Gift of Life
Liturgical Scripts to use for Children - a wonderful creative script for a service with kids! ...
http://mcconline.org/series/brian-mclaren/
A Podcast on Interfaith dialogue...
Acts 1:9-11, Daniel 7:13-14
https://joshuaadamscott.com/2017/05/25/why-are-you-gazing-at-the-sky/
Ascension: Gazing at the Sky and finding Jesus...
Luke 20: 27-38
This sermon addresses the text in Luke when the Sadducees engage Jesus in a philosophical argument about the existence of an afterlife, using the case study of the childless widow of seven brothers. It addresses what it means for our understanding of heaven in light of what Jesus has to say. This sermon asks the question, "What does it mean to pray 'On Earth as it is in Heaven'? ...
John 21: 18-22, I Peter 4: 12-16,
http://www.crosswalknapa.org/blog/2017/5/14/comparalyzed
Pete Shaw of Crosswalk Church in Napa looks at how easy, and unhelpful, it is to compare ourselves to others....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ponderanew/2015/05/13/dear-church-an-open-letter-from-one-of-those-mill...
Thoughts about the Church and Millenials...
http://www.patheos.com/Topics/Faith-and-Aging/Turning-the-Wheel-Aline-OBrien
Faith and Aging in the modern world...
http://rev-o-lution.org/2015/10/01/prayer-to-end-violence/
Prayer in a time of turmoil to End Violence...
Gen 1:26-27
http://rev-o-lution.org/retreats-and-consulting/
Women’s Retreats, but is also known for Church Vision retreats as well as past Youth retreats....
http://bjconline.org/standing-against-islamophobia/
Standing for justice and against violence against Muslims...
http://www.ucc.org/justice_justice-training
UCC Justice Training and Ways to Support Justice in Your Community...
http://voicesinwartime.org
Video about Poems for Peace and War...
Luke 19: 41-44
http://sacredise.com/blog/living-on-a-prayer-weeps-luke-1941-44/
Living on Prayer and How Peace makes a difference...
https://www.charterforcompassion.org/charter/karen-armstrong-2008-ted-prize
Compassion Podcast on Interfaith Dialogue: Karen Armstrong...
John 12:23-24
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hippieheretic/2017/05/beautiful-gospel-wheat-not-tulip-daisy-roses.html
The Explanation of Acronyms: Theological Flowers and New Ideas
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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopreacher/2017/04/welcoming-children-gods-creation/
Ideas on how to engage children in God's Creation: 4 ideas...
https://www.pulpitfiction.com/notes/tns4-2
Podcasts: Pulpit Fiction sat down with Miroslav Volf over Skype to talk about Public Faith, Politics, Kingdom of God and his book, Public Faith in Action....
http://www.pathways2promise.org/mental-health-a-guide-for-faith-leaders/
A Guide to Faith Leaders for Mental Health issues that may arise. ...
https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/liturgy-ritual-intergenerational-ministry
Family Ministry and Liturgy for Intergenerational Ministry...
Genesis 1, Genesis 2
Every great play has a prologue, a scene that foreshadows what the audience can expect. So, too, with the Bible. "The Earth is God's Temple: a Study of Genesis 1-2" is less about exegesis and word study and other traditional Bible study tools, and more about looking at the big-picture narrative of Scripture foreshadowed in its first two chapters. The study draws heavily from the work of Dr. John Walton, author of The Lost World of Genesis One, who describes the creation stories as ancient temple-building narratives. "The Earth is God's Temple" explores not only the temple/priest theme, but also touches on how we humans can find life by eating of the tree of life, and not from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 1:1
From theluturgists.com:
"In this episode Science Mike and Michael Gungor talk about the psychological shift that comes with seeing the Earth from space with Guy Reid and Jacob Marshall. We also spoke with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about the science behind climate change, and what we can do to protect life on this planet."...
Shane Pruitt, for Relevant Magazine, discusses how our care for the environment is a pro-life issue and mandates our attention as Christians....
Are we blessing the Earth or destroying it? Modern science and ancient Celtic Christianity both suggest a better way of being – exercising an ethic of stewardship, not dominion. Watch the first episode of “On Earth As it Is In Heaven,” a provocative seven-week Darkwood Brew series, produced in conjunction with the United Church of Christ’s Mission 4/1 Earth....
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Eric Elnes interviews author/speaker, provocateur, Tony Jones about "God experiences" that continue to shape is personal and professional life. Tony is the author of a number of books including, Did God Kill Jesus? Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous
Execution, and The Sacred Way:
Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life. Tony
is also Theologian-In-Residence at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis and teaches
Theology at both Fuller and United Theological seminaries. In his “free time”
Tony serves as the senior acquisitions
editor at Fortress Press, curating the Theology for the People line of
books.
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Genesis 1:1-5; Genesis 1:6-8; Genesis 1:9-13; Genesis 1:14-19; Genesis 1:20-23; Genesis 1:24-28
Drawing inspiration from John Philip Newell's, The Book of Creation: An Introduction to Celtic Spirituality, this 6-sermon resource packet by pastor/biblical scholar, Rev. Eric Elnes, Ph.D., explores faith and Creation through a Celtic lens informed by Dr. Elnes' biblical scholarship on the book of Genesis. These sermons celebrate "the God whose Spirit pervades and whose glory is reflected in all of God’s Creation, including the earth and its ecosystems, the sacred and secular, the Christian and non-Christian, the human and non-human" (Phoenix Affirmation 3). Also available (at additional cost) is a complete small group video resource keyed to these sermons produced by Darkwood Brew which is available in DVD and internet streaming formats (https://darkwoodbrew.org/product/on-earth-series-guided-episodes/).
Sermons include: (1) The Generosity of God; (2...
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