tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61509982011-11-23T19:00:30.924-05:00*oligopistos - Greek, noun, "one of little faith." This is where I think out loud. And where you follow along.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625761329517879665noreply@blogger.comBlogger4091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6150998.post-87812052103168227202008-06-01T23:09:00.005-04:002008-06-01T23:23:09.806-04:00

Pour out your Holy Spirit upon Peter. Send him now to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, to announce the reign of God, and to equip the church for ministry, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.Last Monday I was commissioned at the Oklahoma Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. The Bishop laid his hands and prayed. That graduates my states from "

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From The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker:Ritual, how could we do without it! Though it may seem to be gibberish and irreverence, though the Mass is offered up in such haste that the sacred sentence, "hoc est corpus meus" was abbreviated into "hocus-pocus" by the bitter protestor and has come down into our language meaning trickery, nevertheless there is a sureness

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Read 28:38-57Throughout Deuteronomy the "resident alien/sojourner/stranger" has been a recurrent character whose social vulnerability requires the loving care of God's people. With this in mind, how is verse 43 significant?Notice the words "because... therefore" in verses 47 and 48. What is significant about this cause-and-effect relationship in these verses?

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I don't have a good answer for this question. No matter how often it's asked of me. Many changes have occurred over the past few months that have put at a doorstep of uncertainty. So I'll share what I do know with certainty. Three and a half years ago I began the spiritual and academic journey of seminary. Back in December that journey ended, and I graduated with a Master of Divinity with an

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Read 28:15-37How does this section compare or contrast with the previous verses? What effect does this have?What do you observe in these curses? What areas of life do they entail?

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I'm going to try to get back into the habit of posting the Deuteronomy study we're doing at the Rock. So here goes...Read 28:1-14In an ancient suzerainty treaty, such as Deuteronomy, the benefits and consequences (or "blessings" and "curses") of obedience or disobedience are a significant section of the treaty.Pay attention to the use of the word "if" in this chapter. Why might this be

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From With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray:Our daily life in the world is the test of our communication with God in prayer. How often the Christian, when he comes to pray, does his utmost to cultivate certain frames of mind which he thinks will be pleasing. He doesn't understand (or he forgets) that life does not consist of a lot of loose pieces which can be picked up at random and

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Read 15:7–11Are verses 7 and 11 contradictions of verse 4? What do you think this means?How do you define “needy”? Who in your life do you encounter who is “needy”?How do the two clauses in verse 11 relate to one another? In other words, what gets lost if we read the first clause without the second?

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Read 15:1–6In verse 1, what is special about the seventh year? What does this mean for us as Christians in America?What does the phrase “There will be no one in need among you” mean, in verse 4, and what is the condition for this statement in verse 5?

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Read 14:9–21In these laws of worship, going back to chapter 12, we’ve moved from talking about idolatry to a single location of worship to voices that distract us from God to food. What connections might God be making between all these things?Why is it significant that God would put limits on what animals can be eaten, and what does that mean for us as Christians?

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Read 14:1–8Focus on the first statement of verse 1. This is the first time this statement is made in the Bible and the only time in this book. Why would God emphasize this relationship at this point in Deuteronomy?What do verses 1 and 2 have to do with the preceding verses in chapter 13 and then what follows?

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We celebrated a wedding in the Oh-5 last Friday. Becky and Charles got married. It's a really good story. And Aaron knows it better than I do.Read his post "My Big Fat 05 Wedding."

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This is Mona #1 and Mona #2. They hang out with Sunday morning group that's going through Deuteronomy right now. So, Mona #1 comes up to me last night and says with a wicked grin that I should ask Mona #2 about Deuteronomy. Apparently, they spent a couple hours at McDonald's yesterday dealing with these questions, and Mona #2 was just getting mad about it. What are you supposed to do went I think

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Read 13:6–11Allegiance to the family network may be one of the most important things to the people of this culture. What do these verses mean in light of that?As Christians, what are some of the voices that compete for our attention, and what should we do about them?

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Read 13:1–5Prophets were individuals who spoke on behalf of God. How is this role important among God’s people?Whether these verses are a lesson in be careful who you listen to, or be careful when you speak in God’s name, how does it apply to us today as Christians?

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Read 12:29–32In verse 30, why is God so concerned about what the people imitate?Who do you influence and what influences your life, particularly how you love God?

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The other day I'm walking home from the bank. It was a breath-taking day. The first brisk, fall afternoon of the year. Nice to get some fresh air. The kind of air that makes your lungs catch just so.I'm just about to Laura and Jessica's house when two young ladies cross the street and approach me. They're maybe late teenagers. Maybe a little older. They introduce themselves as Rose and Miranda.

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Read 12:20–28What might the connection be between destroying the altars of foreign gods and eating?Think about this reverence for blood (vv. 23 – 25). What does this mean for the practice of Holy Communion (drinking the blood of Jesus) in this culture that thinks about blood this way?

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I don't know what it is. Maybe it's becoming a subconscious tick of procrastination. Last couple days, I've been wandering news websites. Here are some interesting things I found.Here's a video clip, via CNN.com, of West Virginian Larry Gibson and his fight against mountaintop removal in his community. You can see more of Larry's work here.From the Seattle P-I, Starbucks had it's fourth-worst 12-

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Read 12:13–19Why do you think having a specified place of worship is so important?What is the difference between what the people are allowed to eat (v. 15), what they are not allowed to eat (v. 16), and what they are allowed to eat only under special conditions (vv. 17–18)?

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Read 12:8-12How do we as a church act “according to our own desires" (v. 8)?Notice the growth in vv. 8–11. Behavior that was acceptable before crossing the Jordan is not acceptable after. How do you see this at work in your own Christian life?

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Chapters 12-26 of Deuteronomy provide the details of the covenant/Law. They center around three major themes: worship (12:1-16:17), leadership (16:18-18:22), and community life (19:1-25:19). So this week we dive into the material on worship.Read 12:1–7What are the first actions required by God (vv. 2, 3)? Why is this so important?How do you as a Christian practice this?

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So some church in Tennessee sent out a mailer regarding a series on marriage. And put on racy title across the top of it. Apparently, they "do church differently." I have this sneaking suspicion that this isn't the Gospel Jesus modeled. Maybe it's just me."Church preaches power of sex" (1:25, via CNN.com).Money quote:Concerned Parent: Why don't they take the thousands, literally thousands, they

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Read 11:8–17In v. 8, what are the results of obedience?How does God contrast Egypt with the new land? Why is this important?What has been your own experience in trusting in your own means versus in God’s provision?

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From Blue Collar Ministry by Tex Sample:The key to the power of the political machine was the ward heeler, the person who had a thoroughgoing knowledge of the ward. The ward heeler knew who needed a half ton of coal, who needed a job, who needed help with a hospital bill, or whose taxes were overdue, and so on. The ward heeler knew where the trade-offs were and where a bargain could be struck

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MondayRead 11:1–7What are the great deeds of God for Israel in these verses?What are some particular great deeds of God in your life?**(for the story of Dathan and Abiram, see Numbers 16)

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Aaron introduced me to Jesus last week. It seems Jesus has taken up residence in a dilapidated blue trailer back behind the church. At first look, Jesus looks like Sawyer from Lost, but only if Sawyer just stepped out of a downtown soup line instead GQ. He has that squinty-I-could-charmingly-con-you-if-I-wanted-to look. When he opens his mouth, he sounds like Lawrence from Office Space, but only

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At the church we're reading Deuteronomy. It's a way to be formed and shaped together reading the Scriptures together. Here's the plan for the week.What God WantsDeuteronomy 10:1–22MondayRead 10:1–5How does God respond to Moses’ actions in the previous chapter?TuesdayRead 10:6–11What do think verses 6–9 are here?What is significant about God’s speech in verse 11? What does this say about God?Why

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From Seeds of Contemplation (I found this first edition with a burlap binding at Half Price Books a month or so ago. Best $5 I've spent in a long time):If you have money, consider that perhaps the only reason God allowed it to fall into your hands was in order that you might find joy and perfection by throwing it away (107).

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Here's what we're reading at the church for the week...It’s Not About YouDeuteronomy 9:1–29MondayRead 9:1–7What words are used to describe the “Anakim”? Who defeats them? Why is this important?In verses 4 and 5, what is the reason given for Israel inheriting this land?TuesdayRead 9:8–14How would you characterize the speech of God in verses 12 thru 14? What does this say about God?What part has

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First of all, Rosario's got a new blog. Roz was my RA when I first moved to Wilmore. Now he's planting a church out of The Rock in the Woodland Park area near downtown. So he's promising to write about the experience. Cheer him on. He has a cute puppy.Secondly, from time to time I'm asked where my blog template came from. Good pal +Alan made it for me. He's recently gone solo and is looking for

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I went around today telling everybody it was my last first day of school. I guess that's a misnomer whenever I start that doctoral program. But still, it's the last first day of school at Asbury. If all goes according to plan, I'll graduate in December with a Masters in Divinity. So, in order to get there, I'm taking three classes, nine credit hours. It's a very different semester for me in both

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It's been three years. Three years since I started scribbling in earnest in this place. Three years since Dan, Rich and I crammed as much as we possibly could into my car and I crossed the Appalachians--from the lively suburbs of northern Virginia to sleepy, contemplative Wilmore, KY.The number of pages I've read and pages I've written, I don't want to count. A lot. It is safe to say I am not the

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Here's what we're reading at the church this week. This could get interesting as this passage often comes up in defending Prosperity Gospel stuff, and we're in the middle of a sermon series on what it means to serve the poor, with the poor and just what do we mean when we say "poor."Never ForgetDeuteronomy 8:1–20MondayRead 8:1–5According to verse 2, the wilderness wandering was for developing

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So I'm trying out something new with the Sunday morning Bible discussion group. I'm trying to write up little study guides each week to hand out for every body to work through during the week. The idea is to get everybody reading the same text throughout the week, and not just on Sunday mornings. It's intimidating for some to absorb and respond to a big chunk of text on the spot, so this gives

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About two months ago, Jackie and I took a vacation to Greece. We spent a day in Athens, where we hiked up to the Acropolis and saw the Parthenon. Then we spent seven days on the island of Sifnos in the Aegean Sea. We found Aegean Thesaurus Travel to be a great help.I finally have all of the pictures uploaded over at Flickr. You should check 'em out.

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Message of GOD, the Master. On the day I scrub you clean from all your filthy living, I'll also make your cities livable. The ruins will be rebuilt. The neglected land will be worked again, no longer overgrown with weeds and thistles, worthless in the eyes of passersby. People will exclaim, "Why this weed patch has been turned into a Garden of Eden! And the ruined cities, smashed into oblivion,

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Jason and Kelly, my brother and sister-in-law, spent a couple weeks at an orphanage in Mozambique last month. They have recently discovered the magic of Flickr and so now they've got some photos from that trip available here.There are some really good ones.

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Lawson Stone is in print, interviewed by Time Magazine.A Viennese expert in cuneiform tablets has found one dating from 595 B.C. with the name of a Babylonian official mentioned in the book of Jeremiah:Lawson Stone, a professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, describes Nebo-Sarsekim's rank as roughly equivalent to Deputy Undersecretary of the Interior. "The

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A couple weeks back we hosted a Family Fun Night at the Rock on a Friday evening. There were maybe 30-40 neighborhood kids that showed up, most with their parents, some we hadn't seen before. Makes me think of when in the Gospels Jesus talks about the kingdom belonging to children.I took a lot of pictures that you can see here.Here are a couple of my favorites.

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Yesterday was my first attempt at grilling steaks on my new toy. They turned out quite tasty. Maybe it's beginner's luck. But the rub I made out of paprika, garlic powder, basil, chili powder and thyme didn't hurt.Jackie's on her second overnight at her new job. Pray for her. I gotta think it's pretty weird coming home just the sun is coming up. This morning, my alarm to get up went off 10

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From John Wesley's Sermon I, "Salvation by Faith":So then, that ‘whosoever believeth on Him shall be saved,’ is, and must be, the foundation of all our preaching; that is, must be preached first. ‘Well, but not to all.’ To whom then are we not to preach it? Whom shall we except? The poor? Nay; they have a peculiar right to have the gospel preached unto them. The unlearned? No. God hath revealed

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I've been translating this week out of Leviticus 11: the dietary laws. I'm sure you all memorized this stuff in Sunday school--don't eat pork, catfish and bat. It's everything you ever wanted a theological discussion to be.Anyway, this stuff has really piqued my interest this week. Particularly as I'm reading Jacob Milgrom's comments like this...Together the food prohibitions, the blood

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Aaron has plenty of Joe stories that he tells. Some crack me up. Some get me teary eyed. Now I got my own. We had a cookout at our place for the Fourth. The hope was that we could see the fireworks from the Legends game from our backyard. The Dillards came over, and Herschel, Tammy and Maggie. Jeana brought Chip and Carlos. The storms came just as I was grilling the last round of burgers.

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From John Wesley's sermon X, "The Witness of the Spirit":We must be holy of heart, and holy in life, before we can be conscious that we are so; before we can have the testimony of our spirit, that we are inwardly and outwardly holy. But we must love God, before we can be holy at all; this being the root of all holiness.

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Here's a list of songs stuck in my head. I confess, there's a couple sappy love songs. Sue me.1. "Marry Me" by St. Vincent2. "Love You More" by Alexi Murdoch3. "Rolls So Deep" by Aqualung4. "Keepin It Real" by Mason Jennings5. "You Are My Face" by Wilco6. "Odalisque" by The Decemberists7. "Ocean of Noise" by Calexico (live Arcade Fire cover)8. "Roose and Its Crow" by Page France9. "Boy with a

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What is Peter doing with his summer, you ask? Well, let me tell you. Among other things, it's back-to-school time. I'm taking two summer courses. One meets all next week, and so I've been reading furiously (thought perhaps not as furiously as I could have been) all the thoughts and interpretations of the thoughts of John Wesley. The class is "John Wesley's Theology for Today." It's one of the

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Just in case you missed it--and I know for a fact a couple of you did (you know who you are)--Leslie took some pictures and short little videos of our wedding last week.You can check it out here.

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The plane dropped in NYC around 5 pm yesterday. You step on a plane and its a time warp. Maybe there's wormholes or something over the Atlantic. That flight left Athens at 1:30 pm, but they tell us it took 11 hours. I can't figure out that kind of math. So anyway, we land and my eyes are all bleary and achy, screaming, like, "Why have you not slept? And why is it still light outside?"So I'm home,

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I ache for my friend Aaron tonight. And I ache for his boys John and Joe. After three years of leukemia, Melissa died today. I call Aaron a friend. He's got an unmatched gift for words, and he tells killer stories. Though the ones about how his boys react to their mom's illness always leave me a wrecked, weepy mess. I never got to meet Melissa. But if she's half the woman he describes, then there

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Doing some reading on 1 John 4 for Scripture study at the church in the morning. Came across this tidbit from Isaac the Syrian (bishop of Nineveh, who died about 700 A.D.)Because God is love, the one who lives in love reaps the fruit of life from God. While still in this world, he even now breathes the air of the resurrection.That last phrase sticks with me. "Breathing the air of the resurrection

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A follow-up to yesterday's post, here's the speech I gave in class last night.I’ve been told that Jewish history can be summarized in three sentences: They tried to kill us. God saved us. Let’s eat.I recently found a good story about the history of the Jewish people. This takes place during the time between the Old and New Testaments. It is the days following Alexander the Great, and Palestine

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Maybe things are winding down now. I'm back from Virginia. I'm now officially a GRE score (notes to self for future reference: 1) don't take that test within a month of getting married, 2) don't take that test within a month of the end of the semester, 3) don't take that test at 8 am). My last speech for class is now over and done with.Then again maybe things aren't winding down. This is the last

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I'm in Richmond, Virgina this week. The last few months have brought me to several places I would not have expected when I first entered this season of seminary. This is definitely one of them. I'm here with Rosario and John from the church to learn about church planting. When you ask me why I came to seminary, church planting isn't anywhere in my answer. Yet when I look back and play

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I have this compulsive habit of bookmarking various sundry websites that I find interesting. There's always this intention that I may need it in the future. But more often than not, my bookmarks catalog in my browser turns into a junk drawer of sorts. So in the interest of posting something and clearing out the junk drawer, here are the last 10 sites I bookmarked.Windstream Residential - This is

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Here's links to other perspectives on Thinspace. Because I wasn't the only one there.Audio files on all the main sessions can be downloaded here.I took some pictures. Not enough. Alan took more. So did Kevin. Glenn has a couple.Alan wrote up what he shared in his breakout session about liturgy:What about that word - organic? Let's think about that for a minute. Think about the natural world,

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Some days I'm convinced I live in a loony bin. Has the whole world gone crazy?Exhibit AFront page of the Lexington Herald-Leader today:Tyrannosaurus rex was a strict vegetarian, and lived with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden...Exhibits showing all this and more will be at the Creation Museum, a $27 million religious showcase nearing completion in Northern Kentucky....The museum is based on a

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What hath blogging to do with the theological academy?If you happen to be in Wilmore this evening at 8 pm, you'll want to be on campus in Cordelia A & B. Chuck Gutenson will be sharing.Here's some of the blurb from Chad...At Asbury, we are really interested in blogging. We are thinking through some of the issues with blogging and how we can use them to communicate the Gospel. There are a few of

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I think I'm a liturgical Metho-matic. I'm stealing that from Kevin S.I've spent the last several months thinking a lot about hospitality, reading a lot about hospitality, writing a lot about hospitality. This weekend I got to receive it. Kevin and his wife Becky welcomed Jackie and I to crash the night at their place.Saturday in one of the breakout sessions, we were each introducing ourselves and

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I did my taxes yesterday. This past year was my lowest annual income since college days. I guess making coffee and studying the Bible doesn't pay so great. Who knew?Then again...According to this website, I'm in the top 13% wealthiest people in the world. #798,928,823 to be exact.That's a sobering thought.

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Jackie and I spent the weekend up at Vineyard Central in Cincinnati for the Feast of St. Patrick. It was 24-hour period gathering of friends and spiritual family from all around. There were about 150 people there--house church communities from Cincy, Lexington, Columbus, Oxford, Michigan, Florida and even as far as the west coast. It was a blast of fresh air for us. It was like the class I had to

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I bought a "new" car last week. This it.She's a 1998 Volkswagen GTI "Golf" with 100,000 miles.Three years younger and 70,000 miles less than my old car, and it was for the same price as what I got from the insurance company.We're getting along pretty well so far, minus the flat tire the day after I got her. But we've gotten over that.

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The Rock made it in print. So that's kinda cool:Waves of immigration, economic flux, shifts in city growth -- dramatic 21st-century trends are changing the physical look and ethnic mix of the neighborhood, and that's changing the neighborhood church....The Rock/La Roca United Methodist Church, in Lexington, Ky., is an experiment in faith, a work in progress, a growing witness in a changing

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Geek that I am succumbed to an invitation to see a midnight showing of the film 300 last week.Geek that I am got home at 3 am and instead of diving right in bed, dove into my Bible atlases to see what I could find the Persian Wars and Xerxes.Here's something I found in The Sacred Bridge:The peoples of the eastern Mediterranean preserved a number of humorous stories about Xerxes' bad temperament

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For Yahweh your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.I added fractions today. Not exactly what I signed up for when I started grad school. But this is where reading the Bible and taking it seriously has gotten

Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625761329517879665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6150998.post-58353935162578870662007-02-22T23:22:00.000-05:002007-02-22T23:34:35.431-05:00

It snowed on Saturday. All day.I worked at the coffee shop. All day.Driving home along the windy Hwy 68 at 5:30 pm, a dastardly road sign leaped from out of nowhere to attack my car. In an act of shameless bravado and instinctual self-defense, I found no other choice than to run the sign over with my car.That should teach it a lesson.But then my poor car did not emerge unscathed.In the end, it

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Ready or not, here comes Lent.That means time for reading TS Eliot:.....Because these wings are no longer wings to flyBut merely vans to beat the airThe air which is now thoroughly small and drySmaller and dryer than the willTeach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still......That means time for reading Kyle Potter:We rededicate ourselves in practical ways to prayer, to seeking and

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If you're local, here's a film event you don't want to miss this weekend.Kentucky Refugee Ministries invites you to join us on Friday, February 23rd at 7:10pm at the Kentucky Theater for the showing of God Grew Tired of Us.This is a film about young Sudanese refugees and it is the winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.Performance by Lexington

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I've been wanting to share this for a while, and since I've also been desiring to get back into the rhythm of blogging and while inspiration (or homework procrastination?) strikes, here it is.This was put together by Dr. Christine Pohl who taught both the hospitality and community courses I've taken over the past couple of months. What are we doing in church that communicates welcome?If we walked

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Again yesterday, as we learned to do from Bonhoeffer, we began the day in prayerful gratitude followed by a Scripture reading from Philippians 2 and prayerful response.We then continued our discussion of Bonhoeffer. He has some really harsh words for "emotional high" experiences, and so we talked about how that might translate into our own experiences with youth camp or retreats like Emmaus Walk.

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Today we discussed two of our texts--Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam and Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. They make a pair, complementing one another quite well. Putnam is a contemporary American political scientist playing with social theory; Bonhoeffer is a German pastor during the second World War. Bowling Alone is a thorough analysis of the decline and renewal of American community;

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Have you missed me? I've missed me. Since Christmas I've been frantically preparing for a class that started today. There were seven books and three papers I had to have ready this morning, and I'm proud to say I got it all done.The class is called "Ethics of Community" and it's taught by Dr. Christine Pohl. So from 8 am to noon from Tuesday to Friday over the next two weeks I'll be in class.

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A brief compendium of tunes I've been listening to most recently. You should, too.1. "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" by Yo La Tengo2. "Black Lexus" by Joseph Arthur3. "Living Like a Refugee" by Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars4. "She's a Rejector" by Of Montreal5. "Yankee Bayonet" by The Decemberists6. "The Fatalist" by Robbers on High Street7. "Goin' Against Your Mind" by Built to

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From Pastor Dietrich, in his Life Together published in 1954:How can God's Word be at the same time prayer to God?This question brings with it an observation that is made by everybody who begins to use the psalms as prayers. First he tries to repeat the psalms personally as his own prayer. But soon he comes upon passages that he feels he cannot utter as his own personal petitions. We recall, for

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Hallelujah.I've spent the last four days holed up in the house working on a research paper on refugees. I just emailed it away, and so my semester finally ends.I don't really know what to say.Greg has set up a blog to keep up with Barb's progress: How's Barbara Doing? Today is more of the same: high heart rate, low blood pressure, doses of morphine.My car is at the shop getting the center console

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Here is the email that Greg just sent out this morning. It was a scary night. ******** We’ve all been encouraged by the good reports for Barbara, but we should still keep in mind that she remains very sick and in critical condition. I say that to brace us all for the fact that last night, as they were preparing Barbara for an MRI, she stopped breathing and her heart stopped. They bagged

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This is Greg and Barb. Greg is the pastor of the Free Methodist Church here in Griffith, IN. Barb is responsible for developing, forming and nurturing the most phenomenal woman I've ever met, so much so, I'm going to marry that girl of hers. Barb has also suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years and fibromyalgia for about the last 7.Over the last six months, she's been suffering neck pain.

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My grand hope of reading and blogging about the prophets thus far has been thwarted by real life events. The semester is now over (there is still a research paper of which I've been granted an extension). But it's time to start. So here we are with the book of Hosea.A first question I have: Why Hosea? The 12 so-called "Minor Prophets" were considered at one stage of the canon one complete book,

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... a.k.a. Or whatever it takes to resuscitate this blog and get me writing about anything.Some suckers would have you believe that Christmas is all about one day, that being, December 25. Others might convince you that Advent is all about opening windows on a calendar. Take for instance, the "Advent Calendar" you may have seen me pitching if you ever came through the drive-thru at my coffeeshop.

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Check out the latest issue of the Asbury Herald, the quarterly seminary magazine for alumni. You may see a familiar photograph on page 23.Speaking of photography, I've set up another flickr account. Here you can see my original photography for sale.Prices are:$15 for 8x10 (add $10 if you'd like it matted/framed)$10 for 5x7 (add $8 if you'd like it matted/framed)$7 for 4x6 (add $8 if you'd like it

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We had a combined service this morning at church. Our traditional, contemporary and Hispanic congregations joined together. I was asked to offer the prayer of thanks. So here's what we prayed.Thank you Father.Thank you for your matchless, holy glory.Thank you for your reckless grace and ridiculous love for your messy children.Thank you for calling each one of us by name to this place this

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Happy All Hallow's Eve!Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead (Isaiah 26:19, NRS).I now return to writing a paper about the problem of evil.Where's Woody Allen when I need him?UPDATE: As Jackie notes below, we missed the reenactment over the weekend in downtown

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Working on a paper to articulate a theology of hospitality.This is from Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf:The Eucharist is the ritual time in which we celebrate this divine "making-space-for-us-and-inviting-us-in." Eating the bread and drinking the wine, we remember the body broken "for us" who were God's enemies, and the blood spilled to establish a "new covenant" with us who have broken

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One of my favorite books I've been working on this semester has been Henri Nouwen's Reaching Out for my hospitality class. In a chapter entitled "Hospitality and the Host" he tells the story of an African minister, who after several years in the ministry, entered into some formal theological training. The experience led the man to a place of more questions than answers and to a place of much

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Found this while doing some research for tomorrow morning's study on Amos 5. This is from the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: The Twelve Prophets (p. 99). Sometimes I really wonder how the editors make the connections, because this bit really doesn't speak much to Amos 5:1-17.Anyway, this is John Chrysostom from "Homilies on 1 Timothy 16":I made heven and earth, he says, and to you I

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I took that picture yesterday while laying on my couch. I was procrastinating reading hospitality stuff.On Monday I had my certification at the Corporate Coffeeshop, thus completing my training. I am now a certified Jedi barista. And that's El Baristo to you, buddy. The manager says she had never seen a more perfect cappucino during a training. You better believe it.So I am sure I've left

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From Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by Christine Pohl:The story of Jesus' post-resurrection encounter with two disciples on the road to Emmaus reinforces the promise of Jesus' presence in shared meals. Jesus comes to them as a stranger (they do not recognize him), but they welcome him as a guest, and in breaking bread together, Jesus becomes their host. In this

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Jackson recently forwarded me an email about a documentary currently making the film festival circuit called Jesus Camp. Here's a write-up found on IMDb:"Jesus Camp" revolves around a pentecostal minister who hosts a summer camp for children in North Dakota, and the sectarian Christian conservative families who send their children to this camp. Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady wisely chose

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All of my Israel photos from my archaeology trip this summer are now on my Flickr.Go check 'em out.

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What would you do, what would happen to your faith if the bones of Jesus were found?Over the weekend a group of us watched The Body, a 2001 film directed by Jonas McCord and starring Antonio Banderas. It's the story of an agnostic archaeologist who uncovers the bones of a crucified man that date to the first century and the pious priest sent by the Vatican sent to quell the ensuing controversy.As

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According to the Asthmatic Kitty Records website, Christmas comes early this year (Nov 21) with a 5-EP box set of Sufjan Stevens Christmas music.One original track is entitled "Get Behind Me, Santa!"Oh what fun.

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David Bazan, the artist formerly known as Pedro the Lion, on the process of writing:I started to put a lot more stock in the idea of writing being a process of discovery rather than a process of communicating some concrete idea that you have... I believe that if there’s something that I feel strongly [about], that it’ll find its way out in the most appropriate way that I couldn’t hope to

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Did some chatting this morning with some of the good folks at church about the second chapter of Habakkuk. You've probably never heard Habakkuk 2 preached before. I have once, but that was a pretty exceptional community. If you've heard of Habakkuk, then you probably know that "just shall live by faith" that Paul gets so fanboy-ish about in Romans and Galatians. And you probably have heard that

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Maryann just sent me a link to this Bud Light ad.Painfully true.This week I learned what "affogato style" means. It has nothing to do with the way one parts his or her hair.

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Went camping at Bee Rock with some pals about two weeks ago before all the craziness of school. We behaved ourselves. Mostly.You can see all the pictures here.

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I confess my greatest stress thus far this week is with a project called Mentored Ministry. It's driving me crazy and the fact that it bothers me so much bothers me even more. It's really much ado about nothing when I get right down to it.It bothers me because I feel completely out of place. This is supposed to be a workshop for lab in preparation for the pastorate. The thing is I don't want to

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The first week of school and controversy is already a-brewin'. I guess some people are getting emotional. I saw this as I crossed the campus this morning. I may not agree with the implications of the statement given the context, but I found the image striking nonetheless.Today was much like yesterday. I'll have Philosophy of Christian Religion at 9:30 on Wednesdays and Fridays. This morning was a

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7:28I'm not ready for this day. First day of classes. First day of new job. And that incessant beeping. I really should get up and turn off the alarm. It's supposed to be playing Jeff Buckley's Grace and not beeping at me.7:47I stumble into the workout room and find an empty bike. Because the iPod is temporarily out of order, I've got Hallie's Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. It's 300 pages long and

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What are you doing on Saturday? I'll be here, and you should come, too. All the cool kids will be there.a seminaron liturgical prayerlearn and talk about the benefits of liturgical prayer.helping to lead us will be dave nixon, founder of vineyard central in cincinnatiand abbot of an urban monastic household there.sponsored byvine & branches christian communitysaint patrick's anglican churchat the

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Ryan Byrne teaches archaeology at Rhodes College in Memphis. He was supervising all the pottery we found at Tel Dan. We had some good conversations about the legitimacy of a Solomonic gate at Hazor and the chances of the Angels and Mariners in the playoffs this year.Ryan's hometown Memphis Commercial Appeal featured his version of the Tel Dan evacuation a couple of weeks ago. You can read the

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