Posted in life skills, sermon notes on Aug 12th, 2011
We mentioned on Sunday that one of the results of “sin” in the world is, we are out of touch with ourselves… There’s a character Dave Chappelle plays, the black blind white supremist who doesn’t know he’s black. I won’t link to it, you probably know it: The character grew up in a home for [...]
Posted in sermon notes on May 24th, 2011
Some of you have been in (or heard about) churches that have tried to take community life seriously – and the result was…annoying. Everyone was all in your business all the time! So you decided to find a church with good teaching where you can be an anonymous face in the crowd… Now I think [...]
Posted in sermon notes on May 17th, 2011
We’ve been having lousy Sunday attendance the past couple of weeks – but I really want everyone to be on the same page when it comes to this topic – so against my better judgment I’m putting up a video recap of me spazzing out talking to my iPhone. So enjoy! And for you punks [...]
Posted in sermon notes on May 15th, 2011
There are many plausible ways one could try to save the world… Some think they can do it through better laws and better politics – others through better education and resources – others through sheer will power and energy of smart people…others still through better design and understanding of human nature and actions (better economics, [...]
Posted in sermon notes on May 13th, 2011
If you don’t like Church because you don’t like organized religion, or because you’ve had negative experiences – or because of negative stereotypes – I’m with you. The church is weak. Even healthy churches are (oftentimes) filled with problems too huge to overlook. But allow me to suggest two reasons WHY this might be so… [...]
Posted in sermon notes on Apr 25th, 2011
I’m not a fan of anniversaries just for the sake of anniversaries… because before you know it every single day is an anniversary of something or other (kinda’ what happened to the Roman Catholic and Anglican church calendars – almost every other day is a holy-day of some kind). But the anniversary of the Resurrection [...]
Posted in sermon notes on Apr 13th, 2011
“In a perfect sinless world, why would we still have cities?” Shouldn’t we be prancing around wide open meadows (like in Little House on the Prairie?) It would be difficult for 8 million people to live safely on a prairie the size of New York City. That’s not counting the extra ten million people who [...]
Posted in sermon notes on Apr 12th, 2011
“In a perfect world, why would we still need money?” In a perfect world, shouldn’t everything be free or gift-based? I don’t think so. People get into the habit of wanting free stuff – but if you were a plumber and you came over and helped me with a plumbing problem – I think (under [...]
Posted in sermon notes on Apr 11th, 2011
Think with me for a minute: If there was never such a thing as “sin,” and there was no animosity between people and God – how would this world be different? THIS world, not heaven or some other world – but this earth that God made and loved…stop thinking of walking on clouds or healing [...]
Posted in sermon notes on Apr 4th, 2011
“So when we’re not living to MAKE money, we’re often living to spend it… We often wind up living for the joy of shopping, spending, buying, eating, travelling, etc… And what the Bible is saying is: Stop that. Stop living for stuff and start living for God.” – that’s the gist of what I said [...]