Sunday, June 2, 2013

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The Business of Selfless Giving


Sermon preached on the occassion of giving thanks and praise to God for the life of Mary Josephine Manual Pearson; my mother in law.  Preached at Grace Episcopal Church, Houston.


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Sunday, May 19, 2013

The duty of a love that reaches out and grabs you


Sermon preached at Christ Church Cathedral and St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Houston, May 2013.


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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Once and Future Church: If You Can't Open It You Don't Own It


Bringing some thoughts together on the future of the church and what will be needed.  With Shout outs to Bob Johansen, Brene Brown, and Simon Sinek. See if you can spot the references.


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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Celery Test


A shout out to Simon Sinek and the Celery Test from Start With Why, Sermon on Easter 5C, Palmer Houston


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Quotes

  • "Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • "Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer." Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • "Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others." Kathleen Norris
  • "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley
  • "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." G. K. Chesterton
  • "One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans." C. S. Lewis
  • "When we say, 'I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,' we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too. The challenge is to forgive the Church. This challenge is especially great because the church seldom asks us for forgiveness." Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey
  • "Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it." Bono
  • "It's too easy to get caught in our little church subcultures, and the result is that the only younger people we might know are Christians who are already inside the church." Dan Kimball