Tag: Christian ideas and practices

• Reflecting on Exodus 2 1-10 – and our texts in general

  

  a whole lot of questions – basic ones – for future reference

  HAT

  September 27, 2022

  Text of the Week – Questions, Thinking Out Loud

  Bible study, Christian ideas and practices, Exodus 2:1-10, questions about the Bible, reading the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• “Words for the Great Ordeal”

  

  John relays a message for Christians going through “the great ordeal” now. We still need these words: “Come, Lord Jesus!” and “Come, everyone who is thirsty!”

  HAT

  August 29, 2022

  Sermons

  Christian ideas and practices, ecclesiology, eschatology, evangelism, hermeneutics, outreach, Revelation 22:8-17, theology

• Double Vision

  

  a meditation on churchgoing

  HAT

  August 22, 2022

  What happens at church

  Christian ideas and practices, Christianity, religion, sociological imagination, worship

• Homon(h)ym(n)s

  

  a meditation on churchgoing

  HAT

  August 15, 2022

  What happens at church

  Christian ideas and practices, music

• “Construction Zone”

  

  a sermon drawn from Revelation 21:9-25

  HAT

  August 14, 2022

  Sermons

  Christian ideas and practices, ecclesiology, eschatology, Jesus Christ, Revelation 21:9-25, spiritual formation, theology, worship

• Evidence?

  

  Living evidence for “the existence of God” – or, not?

  HAT

  August 11, 2022

  Thinking Out Loud

  atheism, Christian ideas and practices, faith hope and love, philosophy, theology

• “Not a Fire and Brimstone Sermon”

  

  we do not need to fear difficult scriptural texts, if we read the Bible through the confidence of faith

  HAT

  August 7, 2022

  Sermons

  Christian ideas and practices, faith hope and love, Jesus Christ, meditating on scripture, Revelation 21:1-8, the Bible, thinking about the Bible

• “Idols, Images, and Idioms”

  

  A sermon on Colossians 3:1-11 Paul is still working on firming up the Colossians’ commitment to Christ and to the way of Jesus Christ, by keeping them oriented towards the big, really big, reality of the invisible God. He’s told them Christ is the visible image of that invisible God – but … at this […]

  HAT

  July 31, 2022

  Sermons

  Christian ideas and practices, Colossians 3:1-11, exegesis, idolatry, Jesus Christ

• Getting Lost

  

  a meditation on churchgoing

  HAT

  July 25, 2022

  What happens at church

  Christian ideas and practices

• “Signs Visible and Invisible”

  

  A recurring theme in the epistle to the Colossians is the reality – and importance – of things invisible …

  HAT

  July 25, 2022

  Sermons

  Christian ideas and practices, Colossians 2:6-19, exegesis, faith hope and love, Jesus Christ, super-empirical reality, theology

• “Too Easy”

  

  a sermon based on Deuteronomy 30:11-14 and Luke 10:25-28

  HAT

  July 11, 2022

  Sermons

  Christian ideas and practices, faith hope and love, grace, Torah

• “Fruit of the Spirit of Freedom”

  

  Jesus Christ was entirely free, and frees us for the same undaunted Spirit-led freedom

  HAT

  July 3, 2022

  Sermons

  Christian ideas and practices, freedom, fruit of the spirit, Galatians 5:1, Galatians 5:13-26, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, religion and politics

• A few thoughts on the close of “Pride Month”

  

  thinking out loud about Christianity and a few LGBTQ concerns

  HAT

  June 30, 2022

  Essays, Thinking Out Loud

  Christian ideas and practices, faith hope and love, hermeneutics, LGBTQ Christian, love your enemies, More Light Presbyterians, personal, theology

• Continuity, or Denial?

  

  Is “what happens at church” on most Sunday mornings more about “continuity” or more about “denial” of what’s going on outside of church?

  HAT

  June 27, 2022

  Thinking Out Loud, What happens at church

  Christian ideas and practices, politics, religion and politics