An Energetic, Traditional, Creative Church

advent 1 word cloud

2011-11-27T08:38:00.000-06:00

word cloud of today's Advent 1 sermon to be preached at St. Marks Presby in Altamonte Springs, FL

World Communion Sermon word cloud

2010-10-03T09:53:00.001-05:00

I never intended for this blog to be so dominated by word clouds of sermons. But those guys over at wordle.net, who I give credit to, just do the neatest things with my words. Here is my sermon from II Timothy 1:1-9a. click on the square above to see it larger and at the wordle.net site.

Sermon on prayer and humility from Luke 18:9-13

2010-09-19T16:39:00.001-05:00

Here is a word cloud from the good folks at Wordle.net This is kind-of outline form, I added to this as I walked around the sanctuary and talked about it. Maybe I can adapt the recording for play in a podcast. I liked this one. sermon on prayer and humility by Walk Jones September 19, 2010 based on luke 18: Let's talk about humility and sportsmanship. Bobby Jones was not only a

Another Sermon Word Cloud

2010-09-12T16:24:00.003-05:00

Many Thanks to the guys at Wordle.net! Here is a cloud of today's sermon on prayer. Sorry, but you have to click it to go to the wordle site to see it bigger. (worth it)

a word cloud of Sunday's sermon from Philemon

2010-09-08T10:39:00.001-05:00

I think you can click on the picture to open it as a bigger (readable)one from the wordle site. I give credit to them (wordle.net).

Belhar Confession

2010-09-01T09:22:00.000-05:00

This fall and winter the presbyteries will debate adding the Belhar Confession from South Africa to our Book of Confessions. A copy of the Belhar can be found here. You'll have to make one more click from that page to get a pdf file of the confession. I plan to quote it Sunday, Sept 5, 2010.

"Fake Christian Young People"

2010-08-28T15:13:00.005-05:00

Sunday I quoted extensively from a piece on CNN online. I don't think there is video of it, but if a reader has a link, please share in in the comments. The article is "More teens becoming 'fake' Christians" on CNN.com and is found here.

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2010-08-28T15:12:00.001-05:00

word cloud of yesterday's sermon

2010-08-09T17:05:00.000-05:00

click on the word cloud to be taken to a bigger image on wordle's web site. I give them credit for the program and project.

On Faith

2010-08-03T12:17:00.000-05:00

Sunday, Aug 8, I will be preaching on faith. Brian McLaren had an interesting take on Anne Rice's announcement she is leaving the Christian Church is his own blog. His thoughts are here. I'm also intrigued by the book Called to be Human by Michael Jinkins, the new president of Louisville Seminary. He has a lot to say about faith and being human as the purpose of Christianity. I will

vacation

2010-07-20T13:55:00.001-05:00

I'm going on vacation July 22-31, so I probably won't blog until August, unless I see something really interesting I want to pass along

Recipe for South African meatloaf - bobotie

2010-07-13T07:32:00.002-05:00

Here is the recipe I followed, although there are many on the interwebs. http://www.ehow.com/how_6640685_make-african-bobotie.html

Anghaarad Teague-Dees' prayer for the Gulf

2010-06-29T15:19:00.002-05:00

This is the prayer a group of ministers prayed at Pensacola Beach this week. I encourage you to pray it when you can. O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the great and wide sea with its living things too many to number creatures both small and great. As we hear the waves crash against the shore we are reminded

Trinity Sermon word cloud

2010-05-30T09:08:00.001-05:00

Word Cloud for Trinity Sunday (Click it to got to a bigger image on their page) from wordle.com (thanks guys)

New Funeral Policy

2010-05-26T10:14:00.001-05:00

Below is the new Northminster funeral policy. If anyone knows how to truncate this post and only show the first paragraph, then link to the whole post, please let me know. I see it done on other blogs, but don't know how to do it here.