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emMAY 14, 2015 9:59PMand the winner is...how to be great AND gracious (humble confidence)be great and awesome, really!and remember that other people are also great and awesome."two sides of the golden coin I’d like each of my children to keep in her pocket forever...be confident because you are a child of god. be humble because everyone else is, too"- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/2012/03/15/the-golden-coin-3/#sthash.ZlS2wh2g.dpufhttp://momastery.com/blog/2012/03/15/the-golden-coin-3/this coin, maybe the one inside peter's fish...5/20DOUBLE CLICK OR DRAG A FILE ANYWHERE TO POST SOMETHING.

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emMAY 14, 2015 9:59PMand the winner is...how to be great AND gracious (humble confidence)be great and awesome, really!and remember that other people are also great and awesome."two sides of the golden coin I’d like each of my children to keep in her pocket forever...be confident because you are a child of god. be humble because everyone else is, too"- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/2012/03/15/the-golden-coin-3/#sthash.ZlS2wh2g.dpufhttp://momastery.com/blog/2012/03/15/the-golden-coin-3/this coin, maybe the one inside peter's fish...5/20DOUBLE CLICK OR DRAG A FILE ANYWHERE TO POST SOMETHING.

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internal v external.

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june 14th--what we talk about when we talk about god

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june 14th--what we talk about when we talk about god

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Acolyte - Will Aldinger

Acolyte - Addie Aldinger

Psalm - Addie Aldinger

Chat - Elizabeth McFadden

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Acolyte - Owen Kearney

Psalm - Reghan Kearney

Chat - Emily M

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When I came up out of the waters-

when the waters saw

the marvel of the Lord-

they looked back;

I stood on dry land. Later there was a bush,

burning, yet not consumed,

with the fire of God

my heart!

Let us worship.

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blue 325 spirit divine, attend our prayers

blue 323 loving spirit

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the nobel prize? babel?

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blue 313 come down, o love divine

red 261 there's a sweet, sweet spirit

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Let there be wonders

and let there be signs,

let there be common holdings

among believers

and the far flung community

of spirit and power-

common hope

and common bread-

the gifts of God;

let us worship.

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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=299149691

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=299149734

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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=299149631

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rev. dr. paul dekar, preaching.

"I am led to the idea of Pentecost as the start of Christian peacemaking (forming communities of prayer to transcend language barriers, share goods in common)"

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blue 269 o god of bethel

red 211 jesus walked this lonesome valley

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when i look at the heavens

the work of your fingers

the moon and the sars

that you command

what are human beings

that you are mindful of them?

and yet you are our God

we are you people

the work of your hands.

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acolyte - Emmitt Miller

acolyte - Quintin Miller

psalm - Lily Cloud

chat - Emily M

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One: Look! In the sky!

All: A bird! A plane!

One: I wish there were Superman.

All: Sometimes to be saved,

One: When I am unable myself,

All: Is all I really want-

One: like a weaned child with its mother,

All: my soul within.

One: Let us worship God.

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red 122 comfort comfort

blue 269 o god of bethel

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free tix to the 50th guest!

oragami maybe?

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blue 438 blessed be the tie that binds

red 517 love divine all loves excelling

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we learn together

the ways of God

our mis-steps and failings

we learn to forgive

we grow from one another

from watching with prayer

inspired to be more

for good in this world

i am grateful for here

for each of you

i give thanks.

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Acolyte - Finn Murphy

Psalm - Mimi Herren

Chat - Emily M

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What is faith?

A way of believing.

Is that all?

A way of being, then.

That's much better. "Faith is that by which we live and move and have our being," from Paul.

It describes our motivation;

our grounding philosophies. So what are yours?

We've come to learn.

Thanks be to God!

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red 533 we've come this far by faith

blue 339 be thou my vision

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Acolyte -Will Aldinger

Acolyte -Addie Aldinger

Psalm -Addie Aldinger

Chat - Emily M

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blue 386 o for a world

red 553 we've come this far...

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Acolyte - Bella Bingham

Acolyte - A Bingham Boy

Psalm - Henning Washington

Chat - Elizabeth McFadden

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Acolyte - Christopher Kirkland

Psalm - Mimi Herron

Chat - Jeanine Akers

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call to worship - emily thomas, liturgist

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call to worship - emily thomas, liturgist

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one: i have always wondered why people cling to difference

many: when we are so much alike

one: when we could share so readily

many: so often we do not

one: why is that?  perhaps our lesser angels are fallen?

many: there is a higher law.

one: let us search then:

many: to know our differences as strengths,

one: and our sameness under God.

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geoffrey introduces noah.

if you'd like to talk before, 901-297-1121

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converts. the thing about religion is that you're supposed to be different.

ecclesiastes on wine?

altered states?

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the bush- http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944967

pentecost- http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294945104

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alien- http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944912

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everybody wear red!

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-lsd end of life studies

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why is normal (unaltered) reality not the norm?

billions of people are overcaffeinated. billions more are drunk.

in the bible, everything is altered. bushes burn but aren't consumed.

tongues of fire. holy babies. hmmm.

maybe everything is supposed to be holy :).

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you'll have to set them up, "this was god's blessing for abram"; "when moses met God on sinai, God taught him, listen:"

abram: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944288

moses: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944335

jesus: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944421

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coming of the light

baptism

peace

(no proem)

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the law of the lord is perfect

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294940573

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so, there are a ton of factors that influence a life.

the buddhist call this truth karma, and "you can't escape your karma."

everything you have done and been and seen compile life to exactly where you are

and no other place. you can, of course, change the trajectory of your life,

"you can change your karma," but it requires an unusual effort to counterweight

the orbit of your already-in-place inertias. the taoist called that inertia "the 10,000 things."

religion aims to help people overcome the 10,000 things and live in the godworld.

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-is messiah a pattern? do we need it?

-if so, (i hope not, but) how do you make a healthy saint?

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i waited patiently...not after false gods

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the edict of cyrus--this is the end of the hebrew bible. note two things:

1) cyrus, the messiah, is a foreigner.

2) the end game of the bible is not a hope for a messiah (he already came);

it's for the people to return to the land.

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294938376

john?

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294939163

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1 samuel 15:10-13b jesse the ____ite had seven sons pass before nathan...

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294937826

malachi 4:5-6 the return of elijah at the end of the xtn OT. it matters what you say about messiahs.

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294938048

or maybe it's something contemporary?

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the thing about messiahs is that they're usually directed to a given people. a palestinian savior. george washington...are they necessarily fundamentalist? xenophobic?

also ticky is the tendency to scape goat them. obama will save us. our heroes are helpful only so long as they inspire or galvanize our own movement towards redemption.

in this way judaism's cyrus is a better model than christianity's jesus. what of ghandi? hm?

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give ear, o my people, to my teaching

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294928682

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wisdom's place. stop at "war"... http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294928526

teacher of the law http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294928135

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- matthew 13:54-56, the carpenter's son

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294927788

-ecclesiastes 10:2

² The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of a fool to the left. :) start here,

then undercut hegemony.

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playing on AI. can it be that simple?

after tcaps now, let's reflect on the end of education. does it work?

what would an education look like whose want was god?

and here's the other bit: faith is what we call the motivating ideas

and values that influence our actual being. we all have faith, it's just

a question of what in. (most of us don't really have faith in "the faith"--

follow?) so religion has to care about shaping those values, or, in other

words, education.

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ezekiel measures the temple. http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294925841

(you should change the word "pilaster". nobody knows what it means.)

here's the matthew reading, verbatim:

"before jesus tells the parable of the talents, which has a lot of accounting in it, he answers peter's question about how often you should forgive. seven times seventy times, he says. seven times seventy."

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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294925375

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david mitchell on imitation.

describing the world.

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-the forgiveness thing is worth hearing. maybe the math could shock us into hearing it.

-"i was told there'd be no math."

-in the gospel, numbers = "mysterious."

-lots for mathias, acts 1: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294926494

-the language of mathematics

-as theology.

-golden rectangle (with temple measurements)

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april 26--no mourning nor crying nor math

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april 26--no mourning nor crying nor math

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before tcaps, we'll reflect on the elegant universe and the prejudice against the numbers which undergird it.

galileo, many of today's atheists, probably the wise men, knew that reality was best described mathematically.

yet babies don't learn their 123's as well as their abc's. preachers TALK their way into the godworld,

when it might be clearer to scribble out an equation that charts the movements of the unseen.

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Numbers 33:55- But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.

Mark 8:24- And the man* looked up and said, ‘I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.’

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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294920901

(this sets up the dualism we'll be undermining.)

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- ecclesiastes 1:7. light is sweet,

and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun/

the days of darkness will be many/

everything is breath.

see if you can say that to a person without good eyes.

without light skin. tricky.

-rumi: each other.

-dude who echolocates.

-war and peace. find the why...

-use psalm 38:9-11

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294921919

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acknowledging the complicated relationship we have with difference.

disabilities are awkward. even the way you say "dis" ability is awkward.

differently-abled. probably, that's right. at least that's a better framework

for humanity. so whay do we keep on "othering" one another?

we have a real example in mary julia. in poverty.

trying to get around the WWJD impulse of pity/compassion to something

subject/subject. like that yoga prayer;

the world feels it when we're always trying to "make them whole."

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for the beauty of the earth

now thank we all our god

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of the memphis center for food and faith,

is preaching.

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noah's thoughts on the homily:
-- Part 1: Baseball in St. Louis (Open gates for the poor ... a social comprehension)

-- Part 2: Breaking of Bread and Seeing (Eyes open and attune to the presence of Christ from the farm to the Lord's Table ... a systems comprehension)

-- Part 3: Breaking of Bread and Being Seen (Communion and Christian witness ... a comprehensive story)