Light and Shifting Shadows: Link to my sermon

Monday, December 7, 2009

Link to my sermon

In case anyone is interested, here's a link to the sermon I recently gave:

Thanksgiving Day sermon

3 comments:

Ryan HofacreDecember 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM
I was blessed... very blessed.
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AmandaDecember 9, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Thanks, Ry. :)
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LizDecember 10, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Yay! I left my bulletin in the pew; I really wanted to listen to this one again. :)
You did a great job of both presentation and content; you touched me with the idea that trust in God is foundational to gratitude, and gratitude is foundational to hope. One to ponder and take encouragement...
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Ponderables

"You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that's the sad truth. Maybe they'll break your heart, maybe you'll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. That's the burden.

Like wings, they have weight; we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly."
~Bones~

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“The will to give ourselves to others and ‘welcome’ them, to readjust our identities to make space for them, is prior to any judgment about others, except that of identifying them in their humanity. The will to embrace precedes any ‘truth’ about others and any construction of their ‘justice.’”
~Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace, 29~

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
~Andre Gide~

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“I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of my Father? I am constantly surprised at how I keep taking the gifts God has given me—my health, my intellectual and emotional gifts—and keep using them to impress people, receive affirmation and praise, and compete for rewards, instead of developing them for the glory of God. . . . It’s almost as if I want to prove to myself and to my world that I do not need God’s love, that I can make a life on my own, that I want to be fully independent.”
~ Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 43.

Light and Shifting Shadows

Monday, December 7, 2009

Link to my sermon

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