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Working Group on the Middle East (MCS, ELCA): Chicago: Monthly Prayer Vigil for Middle East Peace
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Working Group on the Middle East (MCS, ELCA). Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Chicago: Monthly Prayer Vigil for Middle East Peace. A global ecumenical prayer vigil began on December 24, 2012, and will continue across the globe, on the 24th of every month. Until the Israeli occupation is dismantled, violence in the Middle East ends, and all can celebrate a just and lasting negotiated resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In Chicago, you can participate in the monthly prayer vigil at:. This work for p...
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Working Group on the Middle East (MCS, ELCA): January 2015
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Working Group on the Middle East (MCS, ELCA). Tuesday, January 27, 2015. ELCA Presiding Bishop Visits Companion Church in the Holy Land. ELCA delegation visits the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem during. January 2015 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. CHICAGO (ELCA) – In her first visit to the Middle East as presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton. During their visit, the delegation met with students of the Evangelical Lutheran School in Beit Sahour.
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Great Conversations - Let's Talk
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Living Theology in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod. 212 Dealing with the Devil. 211 Can We Be A Multi-Cultural Church? Issues 1.1 20.2. You are here: Home. March 13, 2015. By Krista Kapp and Timothy Brown. How do we cultivate Christians in a culture where Christianity is once again (and for the better) a choice? How do we begin to change church structure to be highly invitational, highly relational, and to have higher expectations than previous generations had experienced the church? In developing TGC, we...
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Pray for justice, security, peace and reconciliation among Israelis and Palestinians
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Both Security and Justice for Palestinians as Well as Israelis. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pray individually that justice, security, peace and reconciliation will come to the Israelis and Palestinians. Suggest prayers that can be used in scheduled worship services and other settings throughout the year that address Israeli and Palestinian concerns. Include Israeli/Palestinian issues in prayer chain initiatives. Lutheran Church of the Atonement at 909 East Main Street in Barrington.
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The Private Intellectual
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Ecclesiastes-Based Real Estate Advice. Friday, April 03, 2015. April 3, 2015 (Good Friday). Messiah Lutheran Church, Wauconda. Meditations," by R.S. Thomas:. And to one God says: Come. To me by numbers and. Figures; see my beauty. In the angles between. Stars, in the equations. Of my kingdom. Bring. Your lenses to the worship. Of my dimensions: far. Out and far in, there. Is always more of me. In proportion. And to another:. I am the bush burning. At the centre of. Your existence; you must put. It is God...
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The Private Intellectual
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Ecclesiastes-Based Real Estate Advice. Monday, January 26, 2015. January 24-25, 2015 (Epiphany 3B). Messiah Lutheran Church, Wauconda. Sisters and brothers, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Jesus said to Simon and his brother Andrew, Follow me and I will make you fish for people. And immediately they left their nets and followed him. Wrote about him, you see that it wasn’t always so. It was controversial, it was dangerous, it was a crisis. But they didn’t. S...
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Working Group on the Middle East (MCS, ELCA): Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hinsdale: Introduction to Holy Land Issues
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Working Group on the Middle East (MCS, ELCA). Thursday, January 15, 2015. Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hinsdale: Introduction to Holy Land Issues. Members of WGME will provide presentations and lead discussions at two upcoming events at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hinsdale:. Sunday, January 18, 2015 - 9:45 am. Sunday, January 25, 2015 - 9:45 am. Members of WGME who will help guide the class include:. Member of St. Elias Christian Church. Member of Luther Memorial Church. Member of Atonement Lutheran Church.
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The Private Intellectual
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Ecclesiastes-Based Real Estate Advice. Thursday, December 25, 2014. Christmas Eve, 2014. Messiah Lutheran Church, Wauconda. When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘ Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. A good working knowledge of sheep, their grazing habits, physical needs, and life-cycle. But tonight we a...
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The Private Intellectual
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Ecclesiastes-Based Real Estate Advice. Sunday, September 21, 2014. And partly because the church world is going through painful transformations that are likelier to leave junior clergy un- or under-employed (there is also a non-trivial but not large, as far as I know, segment of the cohort of 35-year-old ordained clergy who just aren't good at the job). So there it is- an impossible job! Five years of attempting the impossible is something to enjoy, I suppose. I hope there are a lot more.
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