Anatheism: Returning to God After God Richard Kearney This was a great book. Kearney doesn’t get into faith development or stages of human development, but his writings would seem to pair well with that sort of thing. My notes are below. Preface What do we mean when we speak of God? Omnipotent causality or self-emptying […]
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Book Notes – Anatheism: Returning to God after God
Posted: August 5, 2014 by admin in BooksTags: atheism, hermeneutics, immanence, interfaith, islam, stranger, theism, theology, transcendence, welcoming the stranger
Riding Haphazardly on a Borrowed Donkey
Posted: April 15, 2014 by admin in SermonsTags: chaos, control, donkey, lent, Palm Sunday, Rap Attack, Triumphant Entry, Vanilla Ice
I preached this sermon on April 13th, 2014 at Grace UMC. The text was Matthew 21:1-11. Jesus has done some interesting things this Lent. He went 40 days without food and water. He had a conversation with the devil. He suggested that people can be born more than one time. He told a woman everything […]
Book Notes – Die Empty
Posted: April 15, 2014 by admin in BooksTags: calling, conflict, effectiveness, meaning, passion, productivity, purpose, work
dieempty.com/resources toddhenry.com @toddhenry Chapter 1: Die Empty “Before I Die, I want to ________” mural “The death rate is hovering right around 100%.” General positive encouragement to be all you can be without excuses. Chapter 2: Your Contribution Principle: “Your body of work should reflect what’s important to you.” “Can I lay my head down […]
Where is the Sin? Where is God?
Posted: March 31, 2014 by admin in SermonsTags: awareness test, blind man, disciples, jesus, John 9, John 9:1-41, judgment, judgmentalism, NCAA basketball, NCAA tournament, Pharisees, scissors
I preached this sermon on March 30th, 2014 at Grace UMC as part of our Release: Finding Space for the Resurrection Lenten worship series. The text was John 9:1-41. Audio is below. I have a little test for you. Let’s see how many of you can get this right. This is a highly successful British commercial […]
How Can These Things Be?
Posted: March 20, 2014 by admin in SermonsTags: born again, born from above, bronze serpent, dinosaur, doubt, earth, fossil, fossils, heaven, jesus, John 3, John 3:1-17, john 3:16, lent, moses, nicodemus, release, serpent, serpent on pole, serpents, t-rex, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Tyrannosaurus Rex
I preached this sermon at Grace UMC on March 16th, 2014 as part of our Lenten sermon series, “Release: Finding Space for the Resurrection.” The text is John 3:1-17. Listen below. Has anyone every told you a story of something incredible – so incredible that you couldn’t help but to have some doubts about it? […]
Integral Wesley
Posted: June 7, 2013 by admin in Ministry, TheologyTags: Claire Graves, faith development, human development, Integral, Integral Spirituality, James Fowler, John Wesley, Sermons of John Wesley, Spiral Dynamics, stages of faith, The Almost Christian, Wesley
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately in the area of Integral Spirituality, Spiral Dynamics, and human/faith development in general. While admitedly anachronistic, I think Wesley had an innate sense about how faith develops and I can see in his sermon, The Almost Christian, a proto-version of the stages advocated by Ken Wilber (integral), Claire […]
14 Tips to Get Stuff Done with Preschoolers Around
Posted: March 24, 2010 by admin in Parenting, ProductivityTags: GTD, parent hacks, preschoolers