Tag Archives: Advent 2014

Is Christ’s Virgin Birth A Pagan Knock-off? Does God Have A Taste For Young Girls?

Using Young Women Throughout history men with power have used young women to get what they want. This fact has made all the allegations against Bill Cosby easily believable. They also made allegations against Bill Clinton believable along with how … Continue reading

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Sermon from December 14, not 24

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Why We Trust in Torture and the Advent of the Ironic Tortured Emperor

A Conversation I Very Much Want to Avoid If last week I said a conversation on racism wasn’t nearly enough. This week I face the fact that a conversation about torture is something I want to avoid. Last week I had … Continue reading

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Sunday’s Sermon Advent, Race and Trust

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How Ferguson’s Darren Wilson Reveals Our Great Advent Need: To save us from the sin between us, Jesus must save us from the sin within us

“We need to have a conversation about race” In the wake of Ferguson and now Eric Garner I am hearing this a lot. Cornell West says “To engage in a serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the … Continue reading

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“If only you would tear apart the sky and come down!” Advent 1

What Kind of Friend is God? I believe it was Philip Yancey who observed that if God is my friend then he’s always the kind of friend that I imagine myself as wanting to be. If I imagine that I … Continue reading

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