by Justin Marple | May 22, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
On the prayer of adoration… Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! We live in a day and age when visual entertainment is all the rage. Video games and movies often seek to bring us a rush that short-circuits our minds.1 It is not unusual then to expect that...
by Justin Marple | Apr 24, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! At a time when many on the rolls of American churches have come to believe that attending church is a good thing, like taking your vitamins, but that it is just one option among many for good health, it is all the more...
by Justin Marple | Mar 20, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! We have been exploring the themes of Christian imagination and formation in the last couple “Pastor’s Green Pastures.” A good illustration of the theme of a Christian imagination is the effect of C.S. Lewis’ The...
by Justin Marple | Feb 27, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! I wrote to you last month about the way that worship on Sunday is not just about learning knowledge for our minds, it is also about ‘exercising’ our imaginations as we sing and speak and pass the peace. During...
by Justin Marple | Jan 30, 2014 | COMMUNITY, Elements of Worship, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! As the apostle Paul tells us, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and...
by Justin Marple | Aug 28, 2013 | COMMUNITY, Monthly Newsletters
Grace and Peace from our Lord Jesus Christ! Everyone knows that society runs so much more smoothly if people take oaths seriously. We want to be able to count on people telling the truth in a court of law. We want the President of the United States to keep his oath of...
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