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02.14.10

Drowsy before the Divine | Luke 9:28-36
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

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

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.

01.24.10

Just Over the Hill | Luke 4:14-21
Roger Nelson

There is a haunting, and I guess for me ~ holy, song by Bruce Springsteen that I often find myself humming. One more lyric singing in my head. In his garage/studio, on an old four track tape recorder, Springsteen sang what he thought would ...

01.10.10

Up in the Air ~ Down in the Water | Luke 3:15-22
Roger Nelson

"Up in the Air" is an engaging, quiet, human movie; I guess the sort of movie that reviewers call "small." There are no giant gangly blue creatures and nothing explodes in enhanced digital glory. "Up in the Air" is ...

01.03.10

I have a relationship with Jesus... | John 1:10-18
Roger Nelson

Christmas is too short. I don't mean the giant run up that starts in mid-November when malls and marketers begin priming our seasonal buying pumps. I don't mean that there is not enough time for gifts and music and fruit cake and eggnog and ...