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• Mother’s Day and the Church: What is Our Responsibility?

  
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  This upcoming Sunday, churches across the country will want to “honor” mothers by having them all stand, or by pinning a special flower or pin on mothers as they walk in, or putting up cheesy PowerPoint slides (like the one on the right) to honor mothers, as if women who aren’t mothers don’t have  inner ...
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• Rethinking Preaching: PechaKucha Preaching

  
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  Images can often be much more powerful than words. Even though the above photo (from Barry Taylor ‘s PechaKucha presentation at Emergence Christianity, January ’13) actually has words  in the image, it’s not something that can be easily forgotten. Doing my PechaKucha presentation was one of the most ...
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• Indoctrination Through Hymnody in the Pluralistic Church

  
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  I’ve been away for a while, so there’s a lot to catch up on, but I’ll start with a follow-up on David Ould’s excellent post , “So Much Anger Over the Wrath of God.” The focus in the blog post he examines is the hymn “In Christ Alone,” a modern classic that is sure to be in evangelical hymnals for ...
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• Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending May 4, 2013

  
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  Once again, the business before the Church of Scotland General Assembly makes the headlines but this time the story comes from the Church and Society Council: Scottish Church denial of Jewish land rights stirs ire - From the Jerusalem Post This is one of the few stories about this to hit the mainstream media. In ...
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• Rethinking Preaching: Monological vs Dialogical Preaching

  
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  Last week I wrote a bit about preaching styles (manuscripts vs outline vs more free form) and today I want to chat a bit about the form or content of a sermon. First, a note about the above photograph. This is a shot of Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis, a community that Doug Pagitt helped to form. I love so many ...
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• The Church as Blueberry Pancake

  
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  It was either Rocky Supinger or Greg Bolt that turned me on to marketing guru Seth Godin . I subscribed to his blog and read it with interest. I often find in his posts compelling connections or challenges for the church. I’ve considered writing posts that tease out these connections, so here’s a first ...
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• Rethinking Preaching: Seminary Killed my Style – Now What?

  
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  I thought I’d spend a few posts here on Pomomusings reflecting on preaching, something that I don’t get to do every week as an Associate Pastor, but something I do enough that the topic is on my mind often. Many of you may recognize the photo above: it’s Miller Chapel at Princeton Theological Seminary. I ...
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• First Moderator Candidate For PC(USA) 221st GA (2014) - RE Heath Rada

  
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  Got to admit, this was a bit of a shocker -- no sooner had I posted the line up for the 2013 GA season than I see the Presbyterian Outlooks announcement of the first candidate standing for Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 221st General Assembly in 2014. Im not ready for this yet! There is still way ...
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• General Assembly Season 2013

  
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  Ah, the First of May -- the start of General Assembly Season 2013!  Coffee? Check. Alarm clocks set? Check. Internet streaming? Check. It looks like we are all ready to go so here is this years line-up:   General Assembly Presbyterian Church of Tasmania   14 May ...
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• Sermon – Outside the Bubble. April 28, 2013

  
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  This sermon was preached on April 28, 2013 by Ann Elyse Hicks and Mark Smith (seminary interns) at Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church in North Plainfield, NJ. Audio:  Sermon 2013-04-28 Acts 11 Ann Elyse Hicks and Mark Smith New Testament Reading:  Acts 11:1-18 Ann Elyse: Look, I understand why you would ...
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• A Look At The PC(USA) Church Dismissals In Alaska

  
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  A little under a year ago I did an analysis of some church dismissals from Tropical Florida and Mississippi Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) . In each presbytery multiple churches were dismissed permitting a statistical comparison of the sizes of those churches with the churches across the ...
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• An Installation Sermon: “Following” (Matt. 4:18-22)

  
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  For various reasons, I don’t often post my sermons on this blog, nor do I mention my work with the Presbytery of the Northern Plains . Today, however, I’m making an exception and posting the manuscript for the sermon I preached this morning at First Presbyterian Church of Fargo, ND at the Installation Service ...
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• Why Traditional Churches Should Stick with Traditional Worship…if They’re Content with Dying a Slow Death

  
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  Photo of Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church from Wikipedia Last week, Patheos blogger David Murrow wrote a post entitled “ Why traditional churches should stick with traditional worship. ” It was apparently shared over 38,000 times on Facebook…so it’s quite possible that you’ve seen the post. In this ...
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• Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending April 20, 2013

  
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  Well the buzz of the week was from the Church of Scotland and was related to the release of the Reports for the upcoming General Assembly . More specifically it relates to the report of the Theological Commission on Same-Sex Relationships and the Ministry . It is an interesting read -- Im about half way through it ...
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• Presbyterian News Headlines For The Week Ending April 13, 2013

  
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  [Ed. note: Last year I started doing these headlines posts but dropped it during GA season and never restarted. Well, enough interesting things are happening that I thought I would restart this weekly post. As before, these are generally news items about global Presbyterianism that catch my attention but I dont have ...
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