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A New Beatitude | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. July 19, 2011 @ 4:43 pm. 183; { Sermon. Someone once said, a preacher only ever preaches what she herself needs to hear. Today is definitely one of those days we’re going to leave the lectionary and get back to basics for the week. I’ll tell you why. I find myself thinking a lot this week about the Beatitudes. Matthew 5 is perhaps after John 3:16 – the most quoted portion of the gospels You can probably recite most of them from memory. Blessed are the persecuted....I find it n...
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What to do with 5 loaves and 2 fish? | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. What to do with 5 loaves and 2 fish? July 31, 2011 @ 10:13 pm. 183; { Uncategorized. And the bus went silent. We realized we were soul sisters the ones who would bring the food. Sometimes, though, I forget. Have you ever gone on a trip and not packed enough food? So what is it about this scripture we read, Matthew’s loaves and fishes miracle? This is the only miracle story recounted in all four gospels. He’s in a pretty vulnerable spot Jesus’ ego, if he were one of us, might have...
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God’s Heart for Justice | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. God’s Heart for Justice. July 19, 2011 @ 4:36 pm. 183; { Sermon. In the midst of this, I’ve also been working with our very own Greater Hilltop Area Shalom Zone, the collaborative of more than 90 congregations, social service agencies, schools, and governmental organizations tasked with the mission to rejuvenate this wonderful, broken place we call the Hilltop. The Zone, of which, you, yourselves, are an essential part, a church sharing the Zone’s mission. Attainment of high scho...
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Can These Bones Yet Live? | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. Can These Bones Yet Live? July 19, 2011 @ 4:43 pm. 183; { Sermon. Max, suspicious of anyone who would haul around a dead man wonders, He probably owes you money huh? I’ll ask him. Inigo Montoya: (reasonably) He’s dead. He can’t talk. Inigo Montoya: What’s that? Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change. Just about all of the elite of the land had been shipped off, kidnapped if you will like Princess Buttercup to Babylon. God’s told Ezekiel to preach to the dep...
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Burning Bushes and Burning Hearts | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. Burning Bushes and Burning Hearts. July 19, 2011 @ 4:40 pm. 183; { Sermon. The reason I’ve been thinking about this is that I wonder whether the same sort of falling in love happens with ideas, with opportunities, with next steps in our lives, with our calling. Last week, Tim preached and asked us the question of what we will do in response to God. His question got me to thinking how do we decide? Here’s what you didn’t know you were looking for! Then there’s a bush, and God send...
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Back to Basics: The Gospel and the Lorax | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. Back to Basics: The Gospel and the Lorax. July 19, 2011 @ 4:41 pm. 183; { Sermon. I was lucky growing up to have lots of books in the house. From the time I was tiny, I played with books, even before I understood what they were. But I didn’t just love them because of where I. Been They captured my heart because I could also see myself in them. They didn’t just tell me. Story They told me. Has anyone else had this happen? And the story seems both very small and simple and so big w...
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Going Back to Our Basics: The Runaway Bunny | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. Going Back to Our Basics: The Runaway Bunny. July 19, 2011 @ 4:32 pm. 183; { Uncategorized. Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, I am running away. “If you run away, said his mother, I will run after you. For you are my little bunny. But the little bunny said, “If you run after me I will become a fish and I will swim away from you. The mother bunny said, “If you swim away from me I will become a fisherman and I will fish for you. If beco...
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What kind of gospel is this? | Jules' Wandering Weblog
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. What kind of gospel is this? August 14, 2011 @ 2:21 pm. 183; { Uncategorized. Let’s be honest with one another. I hate the fact that this is the lectionary text this week. It’s a terrible story. Very un-gospel-y. It makes Jesus look like a jerk. It’s confusing, and full of what seem to be secret metaphors I don’t immediately understand. It feels incomplete. It makes me stop and ask the question, What kind of gospel IS this? The district of Tyre and Sidon where he’s headed are out...
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Jules' Wandering Weblog | Seeking the face of God in any circumstance, a seminarian’s journey in the world | Page 2
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Jules’ Wandering Weblog. Going Back to Our Basics: Where the Wild Things Are. July 19, 2011 @ 4:30 pm. 183; { Sermon. The night max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him, Wild Thing! And max said, Ill eat you up! This is, after all, the human condition. It’s the first chapters of Genesis human beings screwing up in a perfectly good world. It’s our story, through and through. We get an idea in our head, make damaging decisions sometimes, we throw a...William B...
