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February 2008 Fall Sermon Series “Generosity” This fall we will be focusing on yet another of the Intentional Practices of the Christian Church in our continuing desire to become a congregation of Intentional Practice. Since the Spring of 2005 we have been focusing on this goal in sermon series. We began with an overview of all the Intentional Practices, and we dealt in depth with the practices of Healing, Forgiveness, and Sabbath. Generosity is a practice which the church often avoids because it
SUMMER 2007 Summer Preaching Series on Galatians Our preaching focus this summer will be on Paul’s letter to the Galatian church. In his introduction to this letter in The Message translation of the Bible, Eugene Peterson says of this letter: “When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an instrument for controlling others, either putting or keeping them ‘in their place.’ The history of such religions manipulation and coercion is long and tedious. It is little wonder that people who have known religion on such terms experience release or escape from it as freedom. The problem is that the freedom turns out to be short lived. Paul of Tarsus was doing his diligent best to add yet another chapter to this dreary history when he was converted by Jesus to do something radically and entirely different—a free life in God. Through Jesus, Paul learned that God was not an impersonal force to be used to make people behave in certain prescribed ways, but a personal Savior who set us free to live a free life. God did not coerce us from without, but set us free from within.” Each week during the summer we will be examining one of the freedoms which Paul believes we receive in Christ. Our companion book will be Traveling Light by Eugene Peterson. The topics and texts are as follows:
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