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anchor community church: May 2013
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Stuff about being an anchor. Thursday, May 23, 2013. A community that cannot bear and cannot survive. disillusionment, clinging instead to it's idealized image, when that should be done away with, loses at the same time the promise of durable Christian community. Sooner or later it is bound to collapse. Every human idealized image that is brought into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine Christian community and must be broken up so that genuine community can survive. From Life Together, 35-3...
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anchor community church: April 2014
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Stuff about being an anchor. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. What are you striving for in life? What sets Christians apart is our calling - called by Christ to follow him, which is then a call to go into the world, sent by Christ to represent Him and partner in his mission to redeem all Creation. The call of the Christian somehow transcends ordinary life and yet permeates it with an extraordinary mission. Christians strive to help everyone connect with Christ, the one who rescues and transforms and inspires.
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anchor community church: August 2014
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Stuff about being an anchor. Monday, August 25, 2014. We Can Overcome Evil with Good? Scientific thought through skepticism and curiosity to attain knowledge of reality have historically undermined religious or spiritual claims for how or why the world works. This mode of thinking ought to continue upon science and religion and all other thought-systems, including itself. Why does evil still persist? Is it merely education? A matter of desire? Is evil personified by Satan? So how do we begin to grasp the...
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anchor community church: CHRISTISNOWHERE: How Jesus Can Be King Of Your Christmas - First Sermon of Advent
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Stuff about being an anchor. Thursday, December 4, 2014. CHRISTISNOWHERE: How Jesus Can Be King Of Your Christmas - First Sermon of Advent. Lectionary Reading for the First Sunday of Advent:. Isaiah 64, Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19, 1Cor 1:3-9, Mark 13:24-37. What is Christmas really all about. Sometimes we can become so familiar with a story that we forget or forgo the details of the story, which is what originally made it so compelling and transformative. Why does Israel need a savior? Where is their king?
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anchor community church: October 2013
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Stuff about being an anchor. Wednesday, October 9, 2013. The Lord's Supper was not just about sharing bread and a cup of wine. It was also about sharing in the suffering of Jesus. Prayer is a powerful way to share in the sufferings of others. If Communionity is about unity with one another and communion with Christ, prayer is a crucial task for that relationship. In prayer we share with God the suffering of those near and dear to us. But more than that, we believe that Jesus can help. That's what communi...
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anchor community church: Move Forward In Your Understanding of the Bible: the Creation stories
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Stuff about being an anchor. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Move Forward In Your Understanding of the Bible: the Creation stories. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.". It's a compelling and famous first line to the Bible. It's also the first word about God. This is against the competing creation narratives that shaped the cultures around them. Whether they be Assyrian or Babylonian creation narratives, the story of Genesis is a stark contrast. Compare it to the remarkable and anci...To he...
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anchor community church: September 2012
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Stuff about being an anchor. Sunday, September 16, 2012. How To Pray and Read the Scriptures. The motivation for this topic centers on the work of spiritual formation. Spiritual formation is the word we give to cooperative work of being shaped, formed by the Spirit of God to participate in the new possibilities of our life now. The work of spiritual formation includes praying, reading the Scriptures, and praying the Scriptures. So how do we pray? How do we read the Scriptures? One lesson isn't enough to ...
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anchor community church: September 2013
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Stuff about being an anchor. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. The Lord's Supper was the last supper Jesus would have with his disciples before his crucifixion and resurrection. It's a meal where he will be betrayed by Judas while he is explaining how his sacrificial death will atone for the sins of the world. It's a Last Supper where he takes the bread and reminds them to share it generously, like he used to do. Communion with Jesus ought to build unity with our community. The spiritual practice of confess...
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anchor community church: CHRISTISNOWHERE: How Jesus Can Be King Of Your Christmas - Second Sermon of Advent
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Stuff about being an anchor. Saturday, December 13, 2014. CHRISTISNOWHERE: How Jesus Can Be King Of Your Christmas - Second Sermon of Advent. Lectionary Reading for the Second Sunday of Advent:. Isaiah 40-1-11, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13, 2Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8. Why do we need to prepare for Christmas with Advent? Matthew and Luke give all sorts of obvious cues that we need to know the OT stories to make sense of the Christmas story - the genealogies kind of give it away! But each gospel-writer also makes it...
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anchor community church: August 2012
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Stuff about being an anchor. Sunday, August 5, 2012. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Many months ago, Pastor Tim approached me about writing a blog for the church website. I told him that this sounded great, while balking at the idea on the inside. Not only was I experiencing some pretty harsh difficulties at the time, but I hadn’t even kept a journal since high school and I had no idea what I would even talk about. As it turns out, this ...
