Posts Tagged ‘proclamation’

Dangerous Inclusion

By ryan • Jan 31st, 2010 • Category: Worship Reflections

I want to tell you a story, but to do so we’ll have to leave this time and this place and go to a time when God walked the earth.  You can hear the sound of hushed murmurs, a growing buzz is filling the air, and we find ourselves back in the synagogue in Jesus’ hometown.  [...]



A Safe Place to Confess

By ryan • Dec 5th, 2009 • Category: Beloved Ramblings

When Bonnie and I first had Moses I told myself that I was going to resist the urge to make sermon illustrations out of my experience of fatherhood, but now here I am.  The urge is just too strong…

Because if you have any doubt that there is such a thing as “original sin”, meaning that humans don’t have [...]



Reforming, Always

By ryan • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Worship Reflections

grace|faith|christ these are the marks of a beggars revolution. do they still have what it takes to re-form us?