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Advent Week 3

// December 10th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Stupid Joy Isaiah    61:1-2a, 10-11 John     1:6-8, 19-28 How does one begin to analyze joy?   What is the deep biblical meaning of joy?  The passage from Isaiah refers to God as the “joy in my soul”.  John the Baptist is often associated with the joy of religious ecstasy. Honestly, the process of analyzing joy as [...]

Advent Week 2

// December 10th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

The Story that is Coming The Scripture this week, whether in Isaiah or Mark, Peter or the Psalms, tells us of what is to come. But it’s the advent season, it’s Christmas time, and we know what is coming. The baby Jesus is coming, the heralded birth of the Messiah. We know the story. Mary [...]

Advent Week 1

// December 10th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Advent 2011: Hope The Text This Week: Mark 13:24-37 Excerpt, Inclusive Translation: (vs. 33-37) “Be constantly on the watch! Stay awake! You do not know when the appointed time will come.  It is like an owner traveling abroad.  They leave their home and put the workers in charge, each with a certain task, and those [...]

Day After the Day of the Dead

// November 3rd, 2011 // No Comments » // Church in The Cliff

As those who have ever attended a birth or a death will tell you—all time is hallowed. I have left births I supported as a doula with my heart crying out— looking at folks passing in the street and thinking “how can the world keep on going?” “Don’t you know what has just happened?” “Don’t [...]

Something to Hold Onto

// October 14th, 2011 // No Comments » // Church in The Cliff

Presence I’ll begin my first guest email for CITC with a confession of theo-biblical geekery: I love the book of Exodus.  I love it so much that I almost went for a PhD in Hebrew Bible instead of Pastoral Theology so I could stay in that story.  Maybe it’s because when I write in Hebrew I don’t ink up my left hand, but I’m [...]

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