Beth Maynard sermon: audio: Jesus and the widow of Nain

Jesus and the widow of Nain :
"What looks like an offensive and unforgivable intrusion turns out to be God's initiative." -Beth Maynard

"13 Christians Who Are Seriously Funny (On Purpose)"...and who would you add?

"13 Christians Who Are Seriously Funny (On Purpose)"  by Cathleen Falsani

List and videos here..so glad Colbert, Fr. James Martin and Rob Bell made the list.

Who would you add?

-Ken and Vincent

 -Dan Nainan 

-Steve Taylor 

-These folks

-Bone Hampton

 -Rhett and Link

-Julian Smith

-Taylor Mason

-Robert Farrar Capon (see "Capon") tags below)

...and.. where are the women?

N.T. Wright & James Dunn video: The New Perspective on Paul

"11 Things I Wish More Pastors Would Say" by Rachel Held Evans

But we're not SUPPOSED to say #1!

..or #2, or...

Here it is:

11 Things I Wish More Pastors Would Say"

see also:

 “Dear Pastors, Tell Us the Truth.” 

The Nazi terrorist invasion of America

video and transcript here

The Humor of N.T. Wright

N.T. Wright video:"Paul for Tomorrow's World"

 If you like the opening joke of video 2. check out

The Humor of N.T. Wright

Barbara Rossig video:"Debunking the Rapture"

See related links below

Related:

•  of course Christians will be left behind: NT Wright and Rossig
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• "This is going to be helpful for people 2000 years from now who don’t want to get left behind”
• Please, Jesus, may i be left behind with the other christians
• Rupturing the Rapture
• only the Edge gets raptured..

• "How to Profit From the Coming Rapture: Getting Ahead When You're Left Behind"
• :: Peter Rollins on the rapture: subverting CHICK tracts

• N.T. Wright on Heaven & Rapture Theology

Kester Brewin TED Talk on pirates, piracy and opening the commons

See also:

Prodigal Pirate

More on Prodigal Pirates

"pastoring" as "something that is done to people"

read all about it here

Scripture and Traditiion

"Scripture and Tradition: What the Bible Really Says" by Edith M. Humphrey

Jacob's Ladder/This Train Revised

written by Indigo Girls after a visit to Holocaust Museum:

Jacob's Ladder/This Train Revised
We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
Out of these boxcars
And out of these chambers
Out of the bed where we lay
With ten strangers
We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
We are climbing
On jacob, jacob's ladder

It's a fish white belly
A lump in my throat
Razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
One hundred people
Gypsies queers
And david's star

This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train
Yeah

Measure the bones
Count the face
Pull out the teeth
Did you get them all?
Do you belong
To the human race
Doctor doctor
Are you unkind
Do you shock the monkeys
Cover our eyes
With clear blue skies


Ah
This train is bound for glory
Ah
This train is bound for glory
Ah
This train is bound for glory now
Ah ah
This train

Here is a dancer
Who has no legs
Here is a teacher
Who has no face
Here is a healer
Who has no hands
Here is a runner
Who has no feet
Here is a thinker
Who has no head
Here is a builder
Who has no back
Here is a writer
Who has no voice
These are the questions
These are the answers
Stacked like wood

This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train

This train is bound for glory
This train it carried your mothers
This train is bound for glory
This train it, it carried your fathers
This train is bound for glory now
This train it, it carried your sisters
This train
This train it, it carried your brothers
(Here is a teacher)
This train it, it carried my sisters
(Here is a writer)
This train it, it carried my brother
(Here is a thinker)
This train is
This train is bound for glory

These are the questions 
Stacked like wood
These are the answers
Here is potential
And it's gone for good

Starbucks Verisimo

"The Hobbit (2): The Desolation of Smaug"Official Teaser Trailer...also Hobbit #18

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