Peter is everybody's favorite disciple because he's such an entertaining doofus. He's easy to relate to because we're all, from time to time, entertaining doofuses, and Peter is our patron Saint. Somehow, though, Peter's meeting with the risen Christ changed him into the Apostle Peter, a completely different guy. You might say he was "born again", if that phrase hadn't been so badly co-opted and loaded up with 21st Century baggage. Come join us to find out what else can be fished up out of Peter.
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, April 19, 2009
The Gospel of Thomas
"Doubting" Thomas is the poster child for one of little faith, but when the risen Lord visited them, the other disciples were huddled in a locked room in fear of the crowds. Where was Thomas? Thomas was out among them. Who's the one of little faith now?
Thomas shows us how a rational man can relate to the resurrection, and do so powerfully. Join us for "The Gospel of Thomas".
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.
Thomas shows us how a rational man can relate to the resurrection, and do so powerfully. Join us for "The Gospel of Thomas".
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, April 12, 2009
Running from the Resurrection
In Mark's original telling of the story, the three women finding the empty tomb ran for fear and "said nothing to anyone". It is a devastating ending, and later hands added "the shorter ending of Mark" and "the longer ending of Mark". The followers of Jesus ran, not only from his crucifixion, but from his Resurrection as well.
Among 21st Century believers, it is enormously difficult to cling to something as preposterous as a dead man raised, and yet Paul, in his 54 c.e. letter to his church at Corinth, describes this one, irreducible event at a matter of "first importance". How do we hold onto the Resurrection as a fact in a modern world? Click HERE to join us for "Running from the Resurrection".
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.
Among 21st Century believers, it is enormously difficult to cling to something as preposterous as a dead man raised, and yet Paul, in his 54 c.e. letter to his church at Corinth, describes this one, irreducible event at a matter of "first importance". How do we hold onto the Resurrection as a fact in a modern world? Click HERE to join us for "Running from the Resurrection".
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, April 5, 2009
The Best Part
At the crucifixion of Jesus, He was alone, abandoned by his disciples, by the crowds which had followed him, by everyone who saw Jesus only through the lens of their own needs and wishes. By doing so, they missed the best part -- the new covenant between God and His people
In the end, only a Roman Centurion got the best part. "Truly, this man was the Son of God". Click HERE to join us for "The Best Part".
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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In the end, only a Roman Centurion got the best part. "Truly, this man was the Son of God". Click HERE to join us for "The Best Part".
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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