by Mark Hamilton | Dec 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
There are famous words, and very famous words. Psalm 23 offers the latter. One of the best known and most beloved of all the 150 songs in the Psalter, this one is at once familiar and strange: Strange because it mixes two powerful images (shepherding, or rather...
by Mark Hamilton | Nov 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last night, I sat in a piano recital in which my son and seven other college piano majors played some of the most gorgeous pieces ever written (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, and some others). They were intense as they brought together months of work and passion...
by Tim Sensing | Nov 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
The following sketch concludes my series of sermons: The Gospel of God for the World of God Acts 17:16-34 1. Some cities evoke particular ideas and images. Just down the road, Nashville is known for Country Music. Nashville is also known as the Athens of the South....
by Tim Sensing | Nov 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Below are sermon notes from the Gospel Meeting I preached in TN this summer, the fourth of five that I will post: The Gospel of God for the People of God Acts 13:13-52 In this series on the Gospel of God, I’ve been talking about the power of story. Stories work....
by Tim Sensing | Nov 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Below are sermon notes from that Gospel Meeting, the third of five that I will post: The Gospel of God Enacted Isa 56:1-8; Acts 10:23b-43 Recall the story of a 4th Grade election. I was the only one in my class who lost—rejection, left out in the cold, excluded,...
by Mark Hamilton | Nov 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
The core claim, or at least a core claim, of Judaism and Christianity is that the One God loves and cares for all the creation. Unlike Gnosticism, which believed that the world was a big mess from which God must rescue the few worthy humans in whom specks of cosmic...