Merry Christmas! It's my Christmas day tradition to post this Isaiah passage (which is a reading for Christmas Eve worship every year), Lennon's "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" (the world's best - and most challenging - Christmas song), and a lighter second song that changes each year. You're welcome. 😉 Isaiah 9:2-7: The people who …
Month: December 2014
Celebrating Sabbath
Note: Celebrating Sabbath is my attempt to start each week with a reminder of our identity: whose we are and who we're called to be. The obvious and only real choice today: the first - and still the best - Christmas song. Yep, Mary's Magnificat. That is, the song Mary sings as she visits her …
Celebrating Sabbath
Note: Celebrating Sabbath is my attempt to begin each week with a reminder of our true identity: whose we are and who we are called to be. I find these word from Isaiah doubly good as they are the ones Jesus references, according to the gospel of Luke, in his first public speech. In other …
I like you and nothing more #StayWokeAdvent
Like John so long ago, and Isaiah even before that, the voice came to me out of the wilderness. (You know, for values of 'wilderness' that include 'bouncing off a few cell towers.') "Hey Pastor Dave, we should play 'Nothing More' in church sometime soon. With all the horrible things in the news lately, it's …
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Celebrating Sabbath
Note: Celebrating Sabbath is my attempt to begin the week with a reminder of our true identity: whose we are and who we are called to be. Let's reboot this series with the verses I've said should be our first responder, our top go-to text, our new leadoff hitter: Acts 10:34-35 Peter: 34 It is clear to …
#StayWokeAdvent
That racism exists in our world, in our country, in our community, in our systems - social, economic, and political - is irrefutable. But as a middle-aged, middle-income, able-bodied, cis-gendered, straight, white, Christian, male, layers of privilege afford me the possibility - the comfort - of not noticing that racism. Or, if I do notice …
All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 