Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Creed, with a bit of the Beatles…
Mike Koop’s latest foray into music for the liturgy E arly last week I got this phone call from Mike Koop, with an idea for some new music for worship. “Jamie,” he said, “I think I’ve just turned the Apostles’
On the foreknowledge of God
a sermon on Romans 8.26-39 O ver the course of July, the lectionary has had us working our way through portions of Paul’s letter to the Romans, and each week I basically have had to set aside any presumption of
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“Keep death before you daily”
O ne of my wife’s running jokes regarding the shape of my ministry is that “Jamie goes for coffee for a living.” Truth be told, I do a great deal of my pastoral work over cups of coffee. Not that
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Sermon – Planting an apple tree
a sermon on Romans 8.12-25 A note from Jamie Howison: This sermon continues our explorations in Paul’s Letter to the Romans. As I mention in the opening paragraph of the sermon, this week it is a little shorter than usual,
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Magic
The second of three essays by Davis Plett I n the last essay, I attempted to show the sealed door that exists between the adult and the teenager: the sorry plight both of the adolescent world, its chosen and unchosen
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Talking Art, Faith and Mystery
From the archives | podcast of our Image Journal exploration of faith and the arts
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The Trial of the Goblin
The first of three essays by Davis Plett “Well,” she said, “I am seventeen and crazy.” Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury T his is the first of three essays which will attempt to present a problem, a solution and a
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Sermon – Choose your master
a sermon on Romans 8.1-11 Unfortunately we had a malfunction with our recording on this Sunday evening, so are unable to post the audio for this sermon. We should have things back on track by next week… May only truth
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I do not understand my actions.
A sermon on Romans 7:15-25a O ver the next month and a half, the lectionary cycle of readings will take us into the Letter of Paul to the Romans. I’m not sure why the lectionary designers thought it a good idea
Revolution
The last of three essays by Davis Plett I n the first of these three essays, I said that I would attempt to describe three things: a problem (the darkness and desertion of the adolescent), a solution (poetry to give