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Finding the Song of Our Heart | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. July 21, 2015. Finding the Song of Our Heart. There’s a never-ending interweaving of continuity and change in the life of a healthy congregation. Our past is part of who we are both the good and the bad. We can’t shuck it off even if we wanted to. Instead, we keep revising and reshaping our identity and our vision in response to the changes in our congregation and the larger community where we live. Such evolution is part of life. You are commenti...
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Here Comes Everybody | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. August 4, 2015. There was a clear distinction between us and them. We hardly knew these other people but had lots of stereotypes. I still remember the prejudiced things we said about them. A significant part of my life story and my faith journey is my transition from that world to being the pastor of our church in one of the most diverse regions of our world. Transforming Congregations through Community. The Song of Our Heart. Again, I have to adm...
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Finding Healing in Tragedy | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. July 9, 2015. Finding Healing in Tragedy. Their two sons were in the hospital in critical condition and the doctors were not sure they would live. Biden recalls, “By the tone of the phone call, you just knew, didn’t you? You just felt it in your bones. Something bad happened. And I knew. I don’t know how I knew. For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. It’s a promise that healing will come. You are commenti...
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Hope in the Eternal | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. July 1, 2015. Hope in the Eternal. What’s temporal is caught up in the eternal that’s real. Sure, we can’t see beyond the final horizon of death (it’s a mystery) but we can have confidence that we’ll be part of the eternal life of God. I find it helpful to relate this to the fact that we’re creatures of time and space. This does not directly answer my friend’s skepticism but it does give us added perspective on our hope in the eternal. Following J...
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. June 10, 2016. An Empowered Faith Community. Daniels Run flowing though the woods behind our church. What does an empowered faith community look like? Mihee Kim-Kort, writing in The Christian Century, says that [we] often forget the women. Do you see this woman? The way she throws off cultural expectations and norms by giving fully of herself in the moment? There’s now a whole cohort of liberated women alongside the twelve disciples. I’m sure ...
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justice | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. August 18, 2016. Living Love, Growing Justice, Welcoming Everyone. Jesus chided his listeners and called them hypocrites because they were blind to such things. He told them that they were good at interpreting signs for the weather but incapable of reading the signs of the times (Luke 12: 54-56). How do we interpret the signs of the times in our world? What does that look like? July 26, 2016. Building an Inclusive Church. The raw fear can be overw...
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community | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. August 30, 2016. The Caveat to Welcoming Everyone. I was initially on the side of not needing to explicitly say it but noticed that many of the newer people in our church voted for welcoming everyone. You were telling us something and I changed my mind. We should never take our ability to welcome everyone for granted. So, what does welcoming everyone look like? Such dinner parties happen all the time here in the DC area, especially during election...
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spirituality | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. August 23, 2016. God’s Steadfast Love. Such love goes beyond measuring up to my own or other people’s expectations. Striving to live up to expectations is a trap because we always fall short. We love ourselves and we love each other because God first loved us. We live the love. This is what strong churches do almost instinctively. It’s who we are. May 6, 2016. A Mother’s Day Tribute. In that respect, we also pay tribute to all of us who take on mo...
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historical Jesus | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. January 11, 2016. The Human Connection (part 2). Finding the human connection was so important for Bryan Stevenson as a first year law student. I wrote about this is my previous blog post and said that I have the same struggle with theological language that can feel just as esoteric and detached from the lives of people I serve in our church and our community. What does it mean to say that Jesus in both fully human and fully divine? We have worth ...
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church | PEACE INSURGENCY
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Spirituality, freedom, and community in the way of Jesus. August 30, 2016. The Caveat to Welcoming Everyone. I was initially on the side of not needing to explicitly say it but noticed that many of the newer people in our church voted for welcoming everyone. You were telling us something and I changed my mind. We should never take our ability to welcome everyone for granted. So, what does welcoming everyone look like? Such dinner parties happen all the time here in the DC area, especially during election...
