This post links to a sermon from this past Sunday at Trinity UCC, Concord. It raises the question for me of where problems with authority really lie. Sometimes the problem is with the authority itself. Jesus challenges the notion that authority is a matter of office. Rather, he demonstrates that the more authentic authority is compassion.
I give thanks for the help of Bonnie Schell in the delivery of this sermon about changing our attitudes toward mental illness.
Click the link below and you will be re-directed to fileswap.com where the audio should begin in a few seconds. Scroll over to the 21:45 minute/second mark to begin the sermon based on Mark 1:21-28.
Trinity UCC Worship January 29, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
In the Beginning
With which beginning do I start? Do I begin with the beginning of my conscious spiritual journey, or maybe with my family of origin, or perhaps with the beginning of last week? So many beginnings. So many endings.
I first conceived of blogging Living Dying Wisdom almost two years ago after a doctoral class in Wisdom as a Way of Life. It was a class at...Wisdom University no less. With that class I fell in love again with the pursuit of wisdom. For the philosophers of Ancient Greece, this pursuit was rooted in a daily contemplation of one's own death. So as I pursue a doctor of philosophy degree in wisdom studies, my writings here are about that broad process.
I serve a local United Church of Christ in Concord, NC as Senior Pastor. It is a small congregation of about 80 in worship each Sunday. We are an Open and Affirming church. This means we welcome, affirm and support all people, and specifically include Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender persons in the full life of our congregation. We also believe taking the bible seriously means it cannot always be taken literally.
Posts here may reflect my work with the congregation, its ebb and flow of living and dying, as well as the movement of my own personal journey into the daily contemplation of death.
I first conceived of blogging Living Dying Wisdom almost two years ago after a doctoral class in Wisdom as a Way of Life. It was a class at...Wisdom University no less. With that class I fell in love again with the pursuit of wisdom. For the philosophers of Ancient Greece, this pursuit was rooted in a daily contemplation of one's own death. So as I pursue a doctor of philosophy degree in wisdom studies, my writings here are about that broad process.
I serve a local United Church of Christ in Concord, NC as Senior Pastor. It is a small congregation of about 80 in worship each Sunday. We are an Open and Affirming church. This means we welcome, affirm and support all people, and specifically include Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender persons in the full life of our congregation. We also believe taking the bible seriously means it cannot always be taken literally.
Posts here may reflect my work with the congregation, its ebb and flow of living and dying, as well as the movement of my own personal journey into the daily contemplation of death.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)