Preaching in a Communication Revolution
Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 2
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All of us are living through what can only be described as the greatest communication revolution in the history of the human race. Technology allows us to communicate in ways that were only before dreamt of or written about in science fiction novels. This revolution has changed the way we understand communication and has influenced the style and...
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Just read about a twenty five year old naked man in Los Angelos trying to commit suicide from an old rusty cross on top of a church building. He was eventually brought down and led away. The story of Christ's humiliation always challenges me to reflect on the areas of my life where I need to strip back. Here is a meditation I lead the other night at St Mary's.
I find it hard to understand.
Why would God
The Father
God the Son
And God the Spirit
Three all...
Mary always knew
there was more to Him than met the eye.
And now, she was looking into his eyes.
in a way that only a mother can.
She wasn't going to make a scene
She detested violence
The voices were raised
The crowd was jostling
This was not about her.
She knew that.
This was always bigger than her.
Bigger than she could ever be
She smiles and cries and feels the pride well up
He looked dazed but not defeated
She thought
Tired but not exhausted
If...
.
Father's thought.
Carried on His Breath
became
a Word
formed in flesh
The Word was
ubiquitous.
Too powerful
to live
in time.
Too gracious
to refuse
to touch the ground.
Yet the Word was
eternal,
as the thought
as the breath,
that formed life
from the ground.
On the ground,
life
muffled,
misunderstood,
graffitied,
strangled,
the breath.
Deconstructed
The Word.
Flesh
crucified
flesh.
Wiped out
removed
crossed...