A Two Goal Lead is the Most Dangerous Lead...

The Rev. Aron Kramer Last Pentecost Sunday, November 25, 2007 Our journey always begins with our trip to the Inn. After days of waiting and hearing rumors of a miracle in Bethlehem, we go to the Inn, but God is not there, they say God is in the stable out back. We leave the Inn and go to the stable; there the shepherds say God is not here, God has left with his family to go to Egypt. We leave the stable and go to Egypt, but the people there do not know God and we return to God’s birth place where God’s family says God is in the Temple. We go to the Temple, but God, the people say, is out in the country and by the seaside, making apostles out of some. We go to the Apostles to find God, but God, the Apostles say, is not with them, God is at the outskirts of town, with the poor, the lame, the widowed, the orphaned and the oppressed. We go to the outskirts of town, to find the poor, the lame, the widowed, the orphaned and the oppressed, some say they have been healed, others as

Just got the newest Trinity News magazine and read an amazing interview. Read it here , it is very cool. The article is called: The Objective of Islam is Peace Be well, A+

I am studying for my sermon next Sunday and reading a little piece about the Colossians reading and discovered this little gem about the community in colossa, or whatever their name was, and the news they were receiving about the Gospel not being adequate for their faith. It reads: "There is a host of different ways in which contemporary believers can be tempted to feel that the basic gospel message is inadequate and that it needs to be supplemented by additional religious rites or disciplines, more sophisticated knowledge, or some compelling experience, if they are to be accepted by God or to reach their full potential as human beings. They need to hear... that there is no inadequacy about its basic message." Now, I don't know about you, but that was kind of wonderful to hear. It gave my heart a boost, to think that the Gospel message as we have it is all that we need to understand the basic message of faith, the basic message of Christ. We are in the midst of studying

I am reading a new book called "Signs of Emergence" by Kester Brewin. I stumbled upon it by chance, I am doing and Advent Sermon Series on Emergence, called "In the Absence of Christ, what emerges?" Of course in my perfect world I would have blended the thought and science behind the Science of Emergence with different Anglican Theology and doctrines to make this brilliant statement of how science and theology are coming together and how are response is to be amazingly brilliant children of God. Then the boiler died, our chimney still hasn't been fixed and many other sordid things that are not making me happy. Anyway, in reading this book, I stumbled across a little quote that got me really excited: "The only way to consider whether our structures are serving us is to stop and reflect on them. To dismantle them; take them apart piece by piece. Expose them to the air. Lay them on the ground and let everyone walk around them and get a good look at them