Chapel Service Video
December 15, 2007
This is the video for the Chapel Service. In this video, there is some great cello music in the beginning, the call to worship from a Shel Silverstein poem (3:07) and one of my favorite hymns, Canticle of the Turning (3:38). But if you’d like to skip to the sermon itself, you can find it [...]
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Magic in Miller Chapel
December 14, 2007
This morning I preached in Miller Chapel. I will write more about it later, but I wanted to let those of you who wanted to hear it have that chance. I have a DVD of the service that turned out really well. Right now I’m just trying to figure out how to get it online. [...]
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Preaching in Miller Chapel
October 11, 2007
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I’m still asking myself why I wanted to do this? But I signed up, and I even got one of the coveted Friday slots for preaching in Miller Chapel. Fridays are Communion Days and very popular - and I got one: Friday, December 14. On December 14, I will be preaching [...]
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An Experiment in Collaborative Preaching
September 8, 2007
I have spent the better part of the past few days staring at Deuteronomy 30.15-20 and James 1.29-25 and trying to think of something to say about them. Like I mentioned a few days ago, I haven’t preached in over a year and so getting back into the rhythm is something I’ve found to be [...]
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Preaching
September 6, 2007
I have a problem - I forgot how to preach. It’s been over a year and a half since my Princeton preaching courses - and I haven’t preached since then. Besides, I don’t know how well they prepared me for the type of preaching I’d like to do. So. I have to preach this Sunday [...]
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Done.
December 14, 2006
Not to rub it in the face of my fellow Princeton colleagues, but…I am done with school. Final projects and papers turned in - done. And since I’m not taking a Jan-term course, I’m free until February 5th. And it will be glorious. I plan on doing a fair amount of cleave design work, working [...]
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The Divine Screw-Job
December 15, 2005
I know Jonny thinks it’s funny when people podcast their sermons (and I’m sure others do too), but…oh well. I am preaching again today, on Gen 32 (Jacob wrestling with God). The sermon is called The Divine Screw-Job (to see why, you’ll have to check out the footnote in the PDF): you can read the [...]
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Pomo Youth Sunday Sermon
April 30, 2004
One of the joys of having been on staff at Camp Sawtooth for a few years is keeping in touch with students. A girl who is in high school just emailed me, sharing with me how she and others had become members of their PC(USA) church last Sunday and the youth gave the sermon (it [...]
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Debt-Cancellation in Wendell
March 22, 2004
I preached yesterday on Deuteronomy 15.1-11 and it went really well. I felt very comfortable up front, and I think I owe much of that to my newly-christened preaching stool. The sermon went really well and while I did use notes, I didn’t need them much. We talked about the practice of debt-cancellation in the [...]
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My Preaching Stool
March 18, 2004
Last time I preached in Wendell, I wanted to sit on a stool. But I couldn’t find a stool in the whole church [which, when I think about it...why would my church have a bar stool?]! So, since I am preaching this Sunday, I thought it was high-time for me to purchase my preaching stool. [...]
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