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Written by David Meeker-Williams
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 01:36 |
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Our friend, Jim McGill, says that Episcopalians like the Bible because it has so much of the Prayer Book in it. Methodists might say that about the Hymnal. Or more properly, much of what we think about the Bible or the faith in general we learned by singing hymns. Hymns have always been a great way to teach the faith. It can also be said that in many cases hymns “work” because they reflect the faith we already have. Hymns are our “soul music.” Tex Sample says that for most ordinary, hard-working Americans, our other “soul music” is country. He’s right. It both speaks to us and for us, and some of those clever titles just stay with you, right? So this week I’ve been listening to Lyle Lovett and the song, "God Will," that is both informing me and reflecting me. Lyle says: "Who keeps on trusting you when you’ve been cheating, and spending your nights on the town?
Who keeps on saying that he still wants you, when you’re thru running around?
Who keeps on loving you when you’ve been lying, sayin’ things that ain’t what they seem?
God does, but I don’t; God will but I won’t.
And that’s the difference between God and me." |
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Written by David Meeker-Williams
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 02:24 |
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We got a huge dose of winter when we were in Lake Tahoe a few weeks ago. We sat out a blizzard that dropped a few feet of snow in one day. I was trying to imaging living like that all the time, and what a different sense of the seasons you'd have in a place where that was the norm! Waiting for spring would have a real sense of urgency, would it not? I find myself walking outside in late winter sometimes, carefully watching the trees for signs of budding. I want that first sign that change is coming, that spring and life and color and warm are all about to happen again. I've seen it a bunch of times and yet it is still exciting and life giving. I can imagine that in a colder clime that anticipation would be vital to survival. You couldn't endure winter without the hope of spring. Each one of us needs to feel that hope and that promise of life. |
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Written by David Meeker-Williams
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Friday, 07 March 2008 17:06 |
Holy Week is around the corner and it means a lot of things. When I was a kid it meant "spring break." Then for a long time it was usually only a couple of days off for those in school, and maybe a couple for their parents as well. Spring break is back this year!
For some Holy Week means time to go to church every day. For others it means time to go to church once for the whole year. Actually, I don't think we have that many "once a year" folks. It's just that on any given Sunday through the year, some of us are out for some kind of reason. On Easter, we ALL come, and bring family, too.
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Monday, 25 February 2008 04:14 |
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Pastor David was away this Sunday on vacation. Cindy Serio read Psalm 31:1-15. Cindy has a lovely voice and her Psalm readings are always wonderfully expressive. If you didn't get to hear it at the 8:30 a.m. service, we hope you got to hear it at 11:00 a.m.: 1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness. 2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me. 3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me. |
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