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		<title>Called and Equipped Jeremiah 1:4-10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine for just one minute that you wanted to start a restaurant.  You could start a fine dining restaurant with fantastic food, an elaborate menu, and beautiful space.  Or you could start a fast food restaurant with speedy service, simple but consistent food and low maintenance/highly efficient space. These are really your two main options.

 

Say you want to start a fine dining restaurant.  Who is the first person you hire?  The chef.  

 

And if you want to start a fast food restaurant?  You hire the manager.

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		<title>One in Ten Luke 17:11-19</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is such an interesting little story.  There are so many things at work here, it is kinda hard to decide where to go with this sermon.

 

See – first we have Jesus walking along, minding his own business and he “happens” to cross across the border of Samaria and Galilee. That might seem like no big deal.  Maybe like crossing from Modesto to Salida.  Or from California to Nevada.  But really – it was more like crossing the US/Mexico border.  

 

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		<title>Wisdom and Maturity 1 Cor 2:1-9</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve begun talking about where the “young people” are and how to get “them” involved with church.  Many of you have shared with me how influential this church was for you during your teenage and young adult lives.  And I see the wheels begin to move in your heads as you start to imagine how to pass that sort of experience on to another generation.

 

I want to share with you today a short article or devotion written by esteemed theologian and writer, Martin Marty that talks to this.

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		<title>Gather Us In Ps 107:1-9</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week or so I have been truly blessed to hear so many of your stories.  I have heard about fishing trips and mountains.  About urban violence and rural farming.  I have heard of the unexpected twists and turns of life and of the times when the path has been straight.  I have heard about traveling and staying home.  Of grief and loss and love and hope.

 

I have heard stories about this church.  Lots of them from the “old building” – the one that burned – the one on G street.  A bunch about the “old building” the one on 14th Street and the stained glass there.  About the ministers you’ve had – the great preaching of some, the ministry with children and young families of others, the failures and foibles of yet others.  I’ve heard about the relationship this church has had with Maze Blvd Christian Church.  And the life-long relationships many of you have with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

 

There is a rich history here. 
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		<title>The Long Way Around   Ex 13:17-22</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a little girl, I lived in Northern Indiana.  In many ways, it was like the central valley of California as it was a rich agricultural area.  The big difference was in what we grew.  In Indiana, I can look at a field and know exactly what is growing.  It is either corn, soybeans, wheat or hay.  I can smell the difference between the diary farms and the hog farms.  Occasionally there is a turkey farm which is quite a bit smellier!  But it’s nothing like the variety of orchards, fruits, vegetables and nuts grown out here.

 

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		<title>Years of Paralysis  John 5:1-17</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-one years ago, Bill Rader wrote this regarding your centennial celebration: “The preparation of this very brief summary of the history of our congregation has been both revealing and challenging.  It has been revealing because of the visionary goals attained by the help of men (and women) to whom the leadership of our early congregation had been entrusted.  Revolutionary ideas of their time, such as special training and devotional services for young people, state evangelists and world missionaries were fostered with bold determination.  It has been challenging because they accomplished so much, not only in helping establish congregations, schools and conventions throughout the state, but by their unapologetic witness to their faith.  I hope as you read this [history] you can catch the positive, imaginative way they met the problems of their time.  In our own age, if we will but use the same resolute action in meeting our challenge, we can insure a valuable heritage for the generations yet to come.” <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastormolly.wordpress.com&blog=628970&post=17&subd=pastormolly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been too long since I&#8217;ve posted on this blog.  The task keeps sliding down to the end of my never-ending TODO list.
I think the reality of never-ending work is true for many people.  I think it is especially true for ministers &#8211; after all the work of God is never done!  And as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastormolly.wordpress.com&blog=628970&post=16&subd=pastormolly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10. More than Couches, Coffee and Candles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Molly, you have said a whole lot in these essays and repeated a few things multiple times. Where are you now on the subject of the Emergent Church?

The term “emergent church” just has too much confusion and baggage surrounding it already.  Having visited a few churches that consider themselves emergent and reading extensively from people who are leading the movement, I am finding two things.  First, there is little agreement on what is meant by both “emergent” and “postmodern”.  Secondly, many churches are looking for a formula to place over their existing processes to make them suddenly attractive to new people and see “emergent” as something that would fill the bill.

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		<title>9. The Progressive Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The liberal, mainline protestant church enjoyed prominence as the civil religion in the United States for a long time.[1]  Everyone was assumed to go to church.  Your social standing was defined by your ecclesial connections.  While I would never suggest that authentic Christianity did not grow out of these churches, there was an element of church membership that came out of social expectations.  Brian McLaren makes a convincing argument that during the 1960’s, the mainline Protestant church fell out of favor as the civil religion when it took a stand against the government in the areas of Civil Rights and the Vietnam War.  Peace and social justice were not endorsed by the state.  Those involved with church as a civil responsibility no longer felt that responsibility and thousands of people left the church.  Over the years, the evangelical (Religious Right) has in many ways taken over as the civil religion.  We hear a lot about “family values” and “moral issues” which basically code phrases for social issues that the conservative church has adopted as a critical spiritual litmus test.  Yet even while conservative mega-churches blossom and the Protestant Mainline churches decline, whole new generations are being born and raised outside the context of any religious community.

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		<title>8.	mega, mini, organic, house: form or function?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of discussion about the form churches are taking these days.  There are the mega-churches with thousands in worship and small groups for every imaginable segment of people.  There are the family-sized churches with less than seventy-five people where everyone knows and loves each other.  There are house churches where small groups meet in homes and when they grow too big to fit comfortably in one home, the group is split and a new leader is sent to start a new worshipping community in their home.  There are <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastormolly.wordpress.com&blog=628970&post=11&subd=pastormolly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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