Sermons
the rubbish of success
Sermons, Sunday Corporate Worship 2
After a fantastic fall retreat, it was great to back at Quincy Street yesterday. We started our annual 4 week ‘pre-communion class’ for our 3rd-5th graders. I am so glad that every year we deliberately teach them about what is happening at the Lord’s Table. It is a place where we remember that we have […]
Escape, Choreography, showing up
Sermons, Sunday Corporate Worship 0
Quick Thoughts from Oct. 10: I loved getting to hear from Oleg Reutki, the national director of New Hope Moldova. “After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was like the dark ages– people were so desperate, they began to sell each other.” 22,000 orphans– boys and girls growing up with the very real danger […]
Envy
Some thoughts on envy from the book Not the Way It’s Supposed To Be by Cornelius Plantinga: Envy is a nastier sin than mere covetousness. What an envier wants is not, first of all, what another has; what an envier wants is for another not to have it. (example: an 18 year old lobbying against […]