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#churches and #family the Socio-economics of #churchattendance | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). The Church being Born. Churches and #family the Socio-economics of #churchattendance. March 11, 2015. Why don't people go to church? Warning: this will be rant-ish. Know how churches don’t like that families and church no longer come first? How it is hard to get the typical family to church more than once a month? Plus who knows if you’ll have that job or even be able to live in that city in 1 or 2 or 3 years from now. This is the reality.
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#Christianity, you keep saying that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). Christianity, you keep saying that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means. June 30, 2015. Being Nice isn't enough. To me isn’t about finding all the answers, but asking the essential questions (look at the Gospel its people asking Christ? S and Christ asking people? 2 Church is a the practice of community. Is about community, there are few places where we commit to practice community with. Whoever comes thru the door. Tolkien ...
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Narrative Lectionary: John 13:1-17 | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). The Church being Born. Narrative Lectionary: John 13:1-17. March 17, 2014. Jesus answered, You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand. Peter said to him, You will never wash my feet. Jesus answered, Unless I wash you, you have no share with me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head! So then Peter says “Wash everything then! And Jesus says “Nah! Feet are enough”. But it is still...
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Anectdotal Woman (or) 24 churches and a feminist | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). The Church being Born. Anectdotal Woman (or) 24 churches and a feminist. May 9, 2014. Everyday I'm a a Pastorin'. I am a woman leader. I was taught I could be whatever I want when I grow up sometimes its a hard promise to live up to. The pif and mif system. The Presbyterian call process. The problem with liberal churches. Who is the pastor. Women in the pulpit. You say I preach like a woman. I have nothing against men, I think they are awes...
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#nextchurch Farmer’s Market: building local ministry | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). The Church being Born. Nextchurch Farmer’s Market: building local ministry. April 1, 2014. A ministry to build on. A plan bigger than our own. Won't You Be Our Neighbor. Sadly I recently looked thru my posts and found that my original farmer’s market post has disappeared (oh no! So I will have to rewrite it with a broader perspective. As an elder said “I don’t even think people know we are here” so we brainstormed…. The clothing exchange wa...
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). I read Fantasy Theologically.and love it. If we can't laugh, what's the point? Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times. "Hallows, not Horcruxes" Harry Potter. Katyandtheword has written 678 posts for katyandtheword.
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Job Ch 1: “What a Setup” or Biblical Fairy Tale | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). Fairy Tales and Biblical Reflections. Job Ch 1: “What a Setup” or Biblical Fairy Tale. July 6, 2014. Once Upon a Time. The beginning of Job. Is a total setup. Once Upon a Time there’s Job: upright and blameless was he. Job was one who had plenty of sons and not too many daughters–sons whose hospitality was great (they really knew how to party people into the kingdom), and they hosted their sisters often. 8220;hmmm….” God say...8220;too good...
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MaryAnn McKibben Dana’s #pastorin3words | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). MaryAnn McKibben Dana’s #pastorin3words. July 16, 2014. What does a pastor do anyway. hard jobs. Asked her to describe her job as a pastor in 3 words. Non-anxious presence. witness to grace. being the grownup. naming the holy. Then she posted on Facebook, what I think names my theology perfectly. God is weird, all the time. All the time, God is weird. Um…my day is made! View all posts by katyandtheword ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Join 78...
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God, Stooping, Kneeling and Praise Ps 113 Narrative Lectionary | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). God, Stooping, Kneeling and Praise Ps 113 Narrative Lectionary. June 4, 2015. Every Knee Shall Bow. Let the same mind be in you that was. In Christ Jesus,. Who, though he was in the form of God,. Did not regard equality with God. As something to be exploited,. But emptied himself,. Taking the form of a slave,. Being born in human likeness. And being found in human form,. And became obedient to the point of death. Even death on a cross.
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Good NEWS and extroverting | katyandtheword
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God Laughter Sarcasm Sci/Fi=Ministry. About Katy (or I believe). The Church being Born. Good NEWS and extroverting. March 18, 2015. We are listening to the immeasurable Diana Butler Bass who is greatly illustrating her theories on church and culture, when the news breaks on twitter a little before 7:30 (she started at 7). Its a amazing, its wonderful. I text the news to my parents. I can’t believe it. Twitter is going crazy. The real question is Can we interrupt Diana Butler Bass? So I’m like, mayb...
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