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Proper 23, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 13, 2013

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Reading 1: Reading 2: Reading 3: Reading 4: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 Psalm 66:1-12 2 Timothy 2:8-15 Luke 17:11-19

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By David Lull

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Our world has too many refugees and exiles, yearning to be free and restored to who..

Proper 14, Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 10, 2014

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Reading 1: Reading 2: Reading 3: Reading 4: Genesis 37:1-4 Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b Romans 10:5-15 Matthew 14:22-33

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By Russell Pregeant

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The “little faith” of the disciples is thematic in Matthew. In thi..

Proper 13, Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – August 3, 2014

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Reading 1: Reading 2: Reading 3: Reading 4: Genesis 32:22-31 Psalm 17:1-7, 15 Romans 9:1-5 Matthew 14:13-21

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By Russell Pregeant

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The Genesis reading is one of the most process-friendly texts in the Bible..

Second Sunday in Lent – March 16, 2014

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Reading 1: Reading 2: Reading 3: Reading 4: Genesis 12:1-4a Psalm 121 Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17

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By Marjorie Suchocki

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Once again the Lenten texts take us through salvation history, starting this time..

Becoming Christ-like Heathens

by Ann Pederson

“What is done in the world is transformed into a reality in heaven, and the reality of heaven passes back into the world. By reason of this reciprocal relation, the love in the world passes into the love in heaven, and floods back again into the world. In this sense, God is the ..

IN MEMORY

by Charles Bowie

On August 24, 2015, I participated in a memorial for Quentin Holt. He was my friend, little brother, and my barber.

This reflection reminds me of how process theology has provided me with a framework for making some sense of living in the world; some sense of the loss of lov..

CREATIVITY AND PROCESS

by Charles Bowie

God works with the world as it is in order to bring it where it can be. – Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, In God’s Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer, 18.

This month I want to reflect on the above excerpt from Marjorie Suchocki’s Theological Reflections on Prayer. This text w..

Service of Adult Baptism and Confirmation

Contributed by C. Kit Wilke

INVITATION TO CONFIRMATION

Kit:

M.E.K.:

Kit: we invite you to come forward to be baptized or to affirm the commitment of your baptism through Confirmation.

Kit: Friends, we are on a journey together. We are part of the pilgrimage of..

Born to Question; Born to Care

By: Carolyn Bohler Date Delivered: March 26, 2006 Nicodemus

John 3:1-9; 19:38-42; 3:1-9
(Nicodemus questions Jesus about being born again, challenges those who would kill Jesus, then cares for Jesus’ body)

Location: Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Tustin, CA
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NOTES FROM THE TEHOM

By Max Johnson

Anyone who knows me knows that I have a (perhaps somewhat unhealthy) love of all kinds of movies and television shows, often gleaming from them various philosophical and /or theological insights I can share with my students. I usually find at least something of interest even in “..