Archive for September, 2008
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Water from Flinty Rock
David Orendorff, Exodus 17:1-7
It started as a great promise. After generations of death at work, death in child birth, death by slaughter of the innocents, death by poverty, and death at the word of someone powerful Moses had been sent by God to set the people free. And now, these “free people” were [...]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Equal Pay for Unequal Work
David Orendorff, Matthew 16:13-20
Here is how much of the world thinks the kingdom of heaven should operate:
Long, hard working people should have preferential treatment.
Workers coming late in the day should not receive a full day’s pay.
Long time workers, especially Christians, ought to get to move to the front of the potluck line.
However, as [...]
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Tenacious Love
In the title I use the word tenacious because this is how I think of God’s love for us and for all creation. God is a tenacious lover. The old image of God as the “Hound of Heaven” comes to mind. No matter where we are lost and no matter where we [...]
