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His Servant on East Cedar: How Jones Got It So Wrong
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Friday, September 10, 2010. How Jones Got It So Wrong. Pastor Jones reads the Bible wrong. There's no news in that statement, I know. But it's important for us who follow Jesus to understand what's wrong with his behavior, above and beyond the pragmatics of danger to troops overseas and Christians in majority-Muslim lands. Some will point out that Jesus overthrew the money-changers' table...
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His Servant on East Cedar: Why We Wear the Ashes
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Why We Wear the Ashes. Said Musa was released from Afghani custody on Feb. 25. And, he had come to put his faith in Jesus in eight or nine years ago. He was arrested in May after appearing on a television broadcast affirming his faith in Christ. During his nine months of imprisonment, he said he was tortured in every way, and mocked and humiliated by both jailers...
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His Servant on East Cedar: August 2009
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Saturday, August 8, 2009. The Health Care Reform Debate - for shame! One of the big divisions in this country is about whether we ought to rely on, or completely mistrust, government to meet some of our needs as a society. But what's become of the public debate? Now we're hearing of public meetings in which groups of people plan to show up in order to do violence? Labels: health care refo...
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His Servant on East Cedar: "Can We Stop Being Afraid Now?"
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Can We Stop Being Afraid Now? That was the question posed this morning in a newspaper column: now that Osama bin Laden is dead, can we go back to when we weren't concerned a terrorist attack loomed around the corner? Can we go back to a world where we trusted strangers? Not only can we keep our shoes on at the airport, but can we go back to carefree travel? I knew ...
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His Servant on East Cedar: October 2009
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Thursday, October 15, 2009. What the Christian Journey is Really About? What is the spiritual journey about? Some people think it is about practice: either liturgical practice (right rites! Or ethical practice (good works). We can find biblical warrant for these things, but again, there is so much diversity that Jesus, by His Spirit, seems to put up with. Thanks, Martin Buber.). He obviou...
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His Servant on East Cedar: December 2009
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. How Gay Marriage and Abortion Require a Different Response. But to my mind, these are very different issues. It is difficult for those of us who like things neat to consider that we don't have all the answers on this issue, and we perhaps should pray more and talk less for a while. BUT I sure do think the issue of abortion is different! I believe that God create...
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His Servant on East Cedar: July 2009
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Tuesday, July 21, 2009. You want me to love WHO? So, who, exactly, is my neighbor? When Jesus said loving our neighbor as ourselves was the second greatest commandment, just who did he have in mind? Does he mean the person standing next to me at church? Does he mean "those of my tribe" - after all, he was talking to a tribal nation. For my group to win, my people to win, my party to win (...
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His Servant on East Cedar: You can't make Jesus an "individualist"
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Thursday, September 2, 2010. You can't make Jesus an "individualist". The alarming sight of evangelical celebrities making common cause with Glenn Beck at his rally on Saturday should have been enough to prompt this post. But today's news of Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Peter Lillback, the president of Westminster Reformed Seminary, appearing on Beck's show make this post necessary. Luke 4)....
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His Servant on East Cedar: Visit my new blog....
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Saturday, March 3, 2012. Visit my new blog. This blog has moved! Http:/ trinitylivingstonpastor.tumblr.com/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pastor, wife, mother, Internet addict, always looking for a table with a waterfront view. View my complete profile. Trinity Covenant Church in Livingston NJ. Promote Your Page Too. Visit my new blog. You can find out more about us at.
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His Servant on East Cedar
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His Servant on East Cedar. Thoughts from the pastor at Trinity Covenant Church, a community of Jesus-followers in NJ. Monday, May 24, 2010. Have you ever noticed that people who habitually tell lies, are likely to assume they're being lied to? I've been surprised sometimes, when someone responds to me as though I'm not credible - it's not that I have such high esteem for myself, it's just that my default position is to believe people! Lie in similar circumstances, you think everyone else is. That makes m...
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