The economic recession has me thinking about the ideas of risk, and the ways we try to live without it. To love your neighbor means to invest yourself emotionally in his or her welfare. Yet, it seems that we are so afraid of losing what little we have left that we are hunkered down, and emotionally divorced from our neighbor. Click HERE to join us for this Sunday's sermon, Hunkering.
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
The Bronze Serpent
The Bronze Serpent
God had hardly finished telling the people to make no graven images when He told them to make a Bronze Serpent which they could look upon to avoid death from a serpent's bite. Jesus thought it sufficiently important that he used it as an image for what must happen to him. Confused? Click HERE to join us for "The Bronze Serpent"
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
I love you all
Rev. Stew
God had hardly finished telling the people to make no graven images when He told them to make a Bronze Serpent which they could look upon to avoid death from a serpent's bite. Jesus thought it sufficiently important that he used it as an image for what must happen to him. Confused? Click HERE to join us for "The Bronze Serpent"
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
I love you all
Rev. Stew
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Spiritual Puppy Dogs
The percentage of Americans identifying themselves as 'Christian' has decreased from 86% in 1990 to 76% currently. Mainline Protestant churches have slipped from 19% to 13%. Clearly, churches are not doing a good job of offering something meaningful to spiritual seekers. Maybe that is because we have abandoned our core teaching about sin and the crucifixion in favor of feel-good lessons on spiritual puppy dogs and unicorns. Maybe, in an effort to make church "enjoyable", we have dumbed it down to the point that it offers no challenge to serious seekers of spiritual growth.
Click HERE to join us for "Spiritual Puppy Dogs"
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
Click HERE to join us for "Spiritual Puppy Dogs"
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Two Crosses
The Two Crosses
Each Lent, we bring in a big, ugly oak cross that one of our congregation made for us. It sits on the floor and we bring symbols of Lent to it. It really is an ugly thing, and it contrasts with the beautiful mahogany cross on the wall behind me. Which cross is Jesus talking about in Mark 8:31-37? Click the title, or click here.
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
I love you all
Rev. Stew
Each Lent, we bring in a big, ugly oak cross that one of our congregation made for us. It sits on the floor and we bring symbols of Lent to it. It really is an ugly thing, and it contrasts with the beautiful mahogany cross on the wall behind me. Which cross is Jesus talking about in Mark 8:31-37? Click the title, or click here.
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
I love you all
Rev. Stew
Sunday, March 1, 2009
A Zero-Sum Game
Mark tells us that Jesus was driven by the spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by Satan. What in the world could Satan have offered? And who is Satan, anyway? Rev. Schneider draws on his extensive knowledge of UK Basketball to look at what sort of game Satan might be playing as we continue to meditate on our question for Lent, "Who is this Jesus, and how are we to understand Him?" To hear "A Zero-Sum Game", click the title, or click here.
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
Community Presbyterian Church of Bellefonte, Kentucky, was built on the casting floor of a 19th Century iron blast furnace. We use "The Casting Floor" as an image for the power of the Spirit to form us. Visit us at http://communitypresbyterian.org.
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