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03.07.10
Strength for the Journey | 1 Corinthians 10:1-14
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
What metaphor is helpful as you think about your life?
I know that assumes that you think about your life and that in doing so you employ a metaphor, but just for fun and as a way into text and sermon...
What metaphor helps you define ...
02.28.10
A Deep Longing | Philippians 3:15-4:1
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
Lew Smedes ~ ethics professor, author, reformed gadfly ~ would routinely ask a class of first year students if they believed in heaven and hands would shoot up all around the room. He would follow by asking who wanted to go to heaven. Again, hands ...
02.21.10
Dining at the Divine Deli | Romans 10:8-13
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
Last Christmas there was a colorful catchy commercial for the Gap.
Against an all white background stood a sort of a Gap cheer-leading-pom-pom-dance-drill-team.
They were hip and handsome young people with a couple cute kids.
They were ...
02.14.10
Drowsy before the Divine | Luke 9:28-36
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania launched a study to determine what kinds of articles get e-mailed the most frequently. For more than six months they checked the New York Times website every 15 minutes and analyzed thousands upon ...
02.07.10
Into Deep Waters | Luke 5:1-11
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
In the early 1940s Lew Smedes left a job in a Detroit steel factory, hitchhiked to Muskegon, took a Greyhound to Chicago, and enrolled as a student at Moody Bible Institute. He writes this about his tenure at Moody:
…after I learned the ...
01.31.10
Just Off the Cliff | Luke 4:22-30
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
An essay by William Willimon reminded me of "Revelation" by Flannery O'Conner and set me on this path. I referenced the story once before in a sermon six years ago. I don't have a better way to get a toehold today.