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Showing posts with label Current Events. Show all posts

Mahalia, Martin, and Lessons for Preachers

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I love this story of how one of he greatest moments in history almost didn't happen. After she had given an amazing performance in f...

In Defense of $700,000 Crosses

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Earlier today, popular blogger Rachel Held Evans posted a story from her hometown of Chattanooga (which also happens to be my hometown). It ...

The Ends of the Earth, Easter 4C

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A sermon for the 4th Sunday of Easter, preached at St. John Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill on April 14, 2013. We welcomed the Rev. Mike R...

Scheduled Social Media?

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Buffered tweets. Scheduled Facebook posts. Almost every social media guru you consult suggests it. I get why. Sit down and do all that sor...

Oreos in the Dark

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$4,000,000 for 30 seconds. That's how much airtime for a Super Bowl ad cost this year. $130,000 per second. And that is just the airtime...

Be a Scrooge!

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(Altar of St. John-Prairie Hill with memorial candles) In the middle of our Advent celebrations, along come John the Baptist proclaimi...

Occupy Wittenberg?

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It started with one man, a pastor. Fed up with watching the poor in his community get taken advantage of so that those who were wealthy coul...

Faithful Conversation

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On Sunday night, I was up late watching the news come in that US Special Forces had killed Osama Bin Laden. The next day, processing my reac...

Why Twitter Matters

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I avoided Twitter. I set up an account about a year and a half ago (@rev_david), but it largely sat their unused. I didn't see the point...