A Terrible Truth

"We human beings have an interesting way of centering our feelings of inadequacy on one idea in particular. We feel inadequate because we are not rich enough, smart enough, handsome enough, successful enough, fat enough, thin enough, or whatever else. We pretend that if we could just overcome that inadequacy we would be secure. That is a fiction. If we overcame it, we would just find something else to feel inadequate about. We clutch these 'sweet sicknesses' to our bosoms as the explanation for all our failures. We hide these secret weaknesses from all the world." -Spong, John Shelby. This Hebrew Lord. P.63

Not a new concept, by any means, but well articulated.

This Hebrew Lord

"I find the word religion and the connotations of the word religious strangely absent from the biblical story. Nowhere in the gospel do I find the goal of Christian mission to be that of making one religious; rather, that goal is to set one free, to call one to life, to invite one to love. I have become so impressed with this contrast that the words biblical and religious have become for me not synonyms, but antonyms. I have repeatedly discovered that the traditional religious meanings of many of the words of our Christian heritage have moved so far afield from the biblical meaning the words had when they first entered our theological vocabulary that misunderstanding is impossible to avoid (Spong, John Shelby. This Hebrew Lord. Pp 16-17)."

Hmmm...I think I like this book.

Sermon:The Sixth Sunday of Easter

As I have been away on vacation, and playing catch-up last week, this sermon is now a bit outdated. Anyway, here you go, this is my first attempt to load an audio file into blogger using the Yahoo! Media Player.

The Sixth Sunday of Easter