Month: October 2011

  • Sermon Podcast: The Compassionate Life

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    The_Compassionate_Life_10_23_2011.m4a Listen on Posterous Listen to a sermon by the Rev. Daniel Haas. It was based on Matthew 22:34-40 and delivered at Provo Community United Church of Christ on October 23rd 2011.

  • It’s Complicated

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    Back in February Facebook added LGBT-friendly relationship status options. For many people “It’s Complicated” is what their relationship status looks and feels like. Same thing for Jonah and God. Look at this messy relationship in today’s reading Jonah 4:1-11.

  • More than a guy in a fish

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    Jonah’s short story, as Wellhausen has best expressed it, is directed “against the impatience of the Jewish believers, who are fretting because, notwithstanding all predictions, the antitheocratic world-empire has not yet been destroyed;—because Yhwh is still postponing His judgment of the heathen, giving them further time for repentance. Yhwh, it is hinted, is hoping that…

  • Let justice flow like a stream

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    What does God want from people of faith? The LORD says, “I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them! […] Instead, let justice flow like a stream, and righteousness like a river that never goes dry.”

  • Social Media Break (7 days)

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    Starting now I will take a one week break from my personal twitter and facebook activity. All my publishing here on this and other blogs will still appear on both platforms. It is just that I do not personally log onto them for seven days. This is a good test of how time-consuming my style…