tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186755572011-12-03T04:16:39.043-05:00Capturing quotes, thoughts on life, politics, and what I really think... These are my personal views, and are not those of Still Waters Church, or the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.Korkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518724889964249856noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18675557.post-43238467360201397462009-07-06T22:46:00.000-04:002009-07-06T22:48:19.281-04:00

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Tabernacle Message

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Tabernacle Message

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This week’s Lectionary: psalm 9.9-20, 1 samuel 17.1a, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49, mark 4.35-41, & 2 corinthians 6.1-13Working on a Tabernacle message about how we think that we need to defend God; violence, arrogance, separatism, hatred, war, & politics. Christ calms the storm and expects us (in the boat) to have “faith.” Seems, as His “Body,” we sleep at the wrong times, we panic at the wrong times (

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What do you think happens when God forgives our sin? Is it God changing and suddenly, reassessing us? Is it God deciding to waive some eternal and required punishment? No! Nothing happens in God. God is a perfect given-ness, totally and always given, literally fore-given, ahead of time, before our act of receptivity. God does not change; we change. Here is what’s happening in the experience of

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We cannot achieve our inherent dignity—our divine sonship and our divine daughterhood. All we can do is awaken to it and start drawing upon it, appreciating it, reveling in it. We know we live in an inherent dignity, a dignity that no one has given to us and no one can take from us. -Fr Richard Rohr

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Lent 4 Message is up at: http://www.besidestillwaters.net/ppt.htmlInterested in comments not controvery... Very interesting time, leading up to Holy Week.

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Suffering is the necessary feeling of evil. If we don’t feel evil we stand antiseptically apart from it, numb. We can’t understand evil by thinking about it. The sin of much of our world is that we stand apart from pain; we buy our way out of the pain of being human.Jesus did not numb himself or withhold from pain. Suffering is the necessary pain so that we know evil, so that we can name evil

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Tent fire destroys homeless couple’s shelter - The Mercury News: Pottstown, PA and The Tri County areas of Montgomery, Berks and Chester Counties (pottsmerc.com)Posted using ShareThis

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Why isn't this guy in the R&R Hall of Fame? He has done nearly everything before folks that are credited as being pioneers... A mystery.Todd Rundgren - Overdue Overview

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Your great spiritual teachers always had to balance knowing with not knowing and knowing that you don’t know. This has been almost totally lost. Even the Christian churches largely define faith as knowing, when in fact; biblically it means exactly the opposite.Faith is being willing not to know, and still being content, because God knows. Now that’s a gift from God—to be able to live with the

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A dear friend runs a very compassionate shelter. I've watched her pour her very life into the hardships of others for years as God’s instrument of peace. Her shelter and ours, work very closely together, and in fact our MAIN Street shelter exists, in all too many way, because of her and her compassionate vision.At the beginning of December, and very good man named Pastor Paul arrived from Kenya.

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Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith, were best-selling authors who were instrumental in linking the evangelical community with the anti-abortion movement.But after coming of age as an evangelist and helping to organize religious fundamentalists politically, Schaeffer had a crisis of faith: Though he is pro-life, he decided that abortion should remain legal.Interesting Interview:http://

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We have a friend who loves us the way that she can. I feel honored when she is free enough to confide the most horrific episodes of her life to me.She lived in a box in New York City for more years than she can remember, with her husband. Her life, as early as she could remember, was filled with the most disturbing kind of abuses you ever heard. I am nauseated and repulsed by the extreme pain

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I just visited juvenile court again this month. I needed to put a friend (one of our single mothers), at ease while we drove to an uncomfortable appointment.This is a true story that I told her, and unfortunately, it is normal for us. (Please don’t read this if you are faint of heart or prudish.)I told her;The last time I was at Juvenile Court I thought that I was going to jail myself.I was

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So often, we remove ourselves from people who might be a little different than us, even ignoring people who desperately need us all year long. Then, around the holidays, we decide to engage those very same people, calling it humanitarianism, or charity, leaving us with warm holiday feelings. I truly do love who we become each Christmas season.But consider, how those who are on the receiving end

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Hitchens/Wilson sneak peak from LEVEL4 on Vimeo.

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The prophets had one foot in Israel and one foot outside. So must you have one foot in your faith community and one foot in the world.Always we have to find our love, then give our love away.Sometimes it isn't easy to give or to see.We must love where we are called to love, and sometimes that means loving people and institutions that really turn us off.-- Fr Richard Rohr

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I have been receiving an enormous amount of questions about my views on Christianity in the political process, moral voting, and “hot button” issues. At this point I hope to respond, generally without offending folks (which I seem to do often), but with a personal opinion and bent that I will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama, the best choice for the United States. I also believe him to be a man of

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Very interesting piece about faith and politics, when CBN seems to have broadened it's discussion to include views of sincere Christians that are not co-opted by one party, or limiting politics to two or three topics. Enjoy...

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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;where there is hatred, let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope;where there is darkness, light;and where there is sadness, joy.O Divine Master,grant that I may not so much seek to beconsoled as to console;to be understood, as to understand;to be loved, as to love;for it is in giving that we

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Those at the edge, ironically, always hold the secret for the conversion of every age and culture. They always hold the projected and denied parts of our soul. Only as the People of God receive the stranger and the leper, those who don't play our game, do we discover not only the hidden and hated parts of our own souls, but the Lord Jesus himself. In letting go, we make room for the Other. The

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I am no longer actively using Blogger (this account) as a Still Waters Church Blog. That Blog is now located at http://www.besidestillwaters.net/blog/ I am now keeping this Blogger account active as a personal Blog and to comment on friend’s Blogger accounts. I am interested in keeping my personal bias' separated from those of Still Waters Church. I am, however, keeping some of the past posts

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I have been struggling with how church is done. What's new about that?In my desire to operate in Christ's Kingdom community (ya know, actually becoming a disciple-following Jesus into his work and will in the earth), I have had some offensive discussions within the church at large.Everybody seems to have figured out individually different Christs that they follow.The "teaching church" believes

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We Have a Chance to Save Countless LivesDid you know that right now, Congress has an incredible opportunity to continue saving millions of lives in the world's poorest countries by fully funding the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty. The last Congress left nine critical spending bills unfinished leaving the new Congress the difficult work of allocating our 2007 budget; a daunting task

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10:30 PM Jan 15, 2007Last week, over 70,000 ONE members sent over 200,000 letters to Congress, urging our government to save nearly a billion dollars for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programs.Today, Archbishop Desmund Tutu, one of the most remarkable leaders of our time, asks Congress to fund the fight and "remind the world of the good that can be done in the name of the American people."From

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Hi Everyone, I found this on Scot McKnight’s Blog “Jesus Creed” this morning...We’ve been saying for a long, long time that “emerging” is more than philosophy and theology and progressive thinking. In fact, it is about “how to do church.” Our local paper, The Daily Herald, has a front-page story about homes becoming the house of God. This is no small element of the emerging movement. The

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Why would anyone choose to follow a God who promises more hardship, not less? Exposing the myth of a prosperity gospel.By Philip YanceyIn my visits to churches overseas, one difference from North American Christians stands out sharply: their view of hardship and suffering. We who live in an age of unprecedented comfort seem obsessed with the problem of pain. Skeptics mention it as a major

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SaveDarfur.org has a post called "Materials for Thanksgiving Action" that's worth checking out... Thanks for including the people of Darfur in your Thanksgiving celebration. We truly appreciate your help. At their site you will find links to download the two documents you'll need to share this desperate humanitarian crisis, including a one page document that provides a brief overview of the

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I was just reading (like others), a quote, of a quote, of a quote, in a recent book, while enduring some terrible realizations about Christians and how they/we selectively "believe" God; inventing our own "brand" of religion that caters to our narcissism.We love to convince ourselves that God would never have the audacity to discomfort, or disquiet our selfishness. We breed this here in the

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It is appropriate for us to note what they are saying, for it is the stuff that we have been trying to embody. It is the Christ-likeness that we try to be. Please take their statement seriously--it is important to God.Here is their closing statement.An End... And a Beginning.Sacramentis has been a pioneer site on worship and culture for seven years. From the beginning, it has been a gathering

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Pete Rollins has released his first book. A challenging book. "How (Not) To Speak of God" is a thoughtful and original book, delivering some heavy-duty thinking from Marion and Derrida in a manner that is accessible and profound, and offering a fresh perspective on the Scriptures that moves the emerging conversation out of binary oppositions and into the love of God. Heres an excerpt:"In this way

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An interview by Lisa Ann CockrelWith The DaVinci Codepoised to go from bestseller list to the big screen on May 19, pastor and writer Brian McLaren talks about why he thinks there's truth in the controversial book's fiction.What do you think the popularity of The Da Vinci Code reveals about pop culture attitudes toward Christianity and the church?Brian McLaren: I think a lot of people have read

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