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The New Optimists

4/29/2018

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Future generations will be told about the Lord, and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, saying that he has done it. -Psalm 22:30b-31.


When running for president against incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980, Ronald Reagan discovered a question that resonated powerfully on the campaign trail: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"  Reagan asked it again and again. Many attribute Reagan’s resounding election victory to this persistent question.


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Augmented Reality in Jesus’ Name

4/22/2018

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How many here have heard of or played Pokemon Go? It is one of the hottest games on smartphones since 2016. Pokémon Go. Players walk the streets like zombies, staring at their phones and hunting for collectible characters. But what they actually looking at?

For starters, they are looking at the world.

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Hymns and Methodist Chicken

4/15/2018

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Facebook has really filled the news this past week as founder and CEO Mark Zukerberg testified before Congress regarding the use and sale of consumer’s personal data. I utilize Facebook- I know many of you do. Millions of people in this country, and billions around the world access Facebook every day. Only a few years ago at an Annual Conference I purchased a book on the Bishop’s recommended reading list, “Facebook Church.”

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Believing is Seeing

4/8/2018

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Preached at Auburndale United Parish
What could be worse than saying, “I don’t believe in you?”

Introduction: Thank you for inviting me back to Auburndale to share this important day with you, celebrating 18 years of your decision to becoming a welcoming and reconciling congregation. The last time I preached here and shared worship with you was soon after Deborah and I moved to Massachusetts from Oregon. I think it was 2014, and you were celebrating an important day for this congregation then as well. Then, like today, you were re-affirming your commitment as a Welcoming and Reconciling congregation. You were also celebrating the Confirmation of several young people that Sunday. The energy and joy in the sanctuary was palpable. I remember talking with you then about your hopes for those young Confirmands, and how these related to our hopes and prayers for the wholeness and well-being of all God’s children. On that day we especially included transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual and intersex people in those hopes and prayers. My theme that morning was the parable of the Good Samaritan and what it means to be authentic good neighbors. We ended the message by singing the well-known refrain from Mr. Roger’s song, “Won’t You be My Neighbor.”

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Easter Message 2018

4/1/2018

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Approximately 40% of the first three gospels focus on the final week of Jesus’ life. This percentage increases to more than 65% when you add the gospel of John, from which this morning’s text is drawn.

Have you ever read a biography? It is clear the gospels are not simple biographies of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. If they were we would expect a more balanced account of the various times of his life; but this is not what we find in any of them.

A vastly disproportionate emphasis is given to the last week of Jesus’ life, as if to say to us, ‘Whatever else you may miss, please, don’t miss this.’ (“Looking at the Cross” Miller and McKim). This is one reason we remember the final acts of Jesus’ life during Holy Week, like the Maundy Thursday Foot washing service in which some of you participated.

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    Rev. Dr. David Weekley, is the Pastor at St Nicholas United Method Church

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