DROPPING OUR NETS
SERMON: January 22, 2012 Mark 1:14-20 INTRO to Text: The story of Jesus begins with John the baptizer dressed up like Elijah the prophet —Elijah the one who kept calling Israel back to its Torah-bound faith in the God of liberation. The baptizer set up shop at the historic Jordan River — the same river that the wandering newly freed slaves from Pharaoh’s Empire had crossed over to reach...
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THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD (January 15, 2012)
Sermon: January 15, 2012 Rev. Rich Lang The Good News of God Mark 1:14-15 In Romans the Apostle Paul says: “I am not ashamed of the Gospel; it is the power of God for salvation”. It is the ability of God to bring forth liberation. That has certainly been true in my life. I grew up in a deeply twisted family environment. My mom married six times and during one of the divorces (when I was in...
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TEMPLE TALKS
January starts out with a bang as we cohost three FANTASTIC book events with the University Book Store. One more is scheduled in February. All the events will be held in our chapel at 7pm. Donations gladly accepted. Monday • January 16 • 7pm William Gibson Distrust That Particular Flavor (PUTNAM) Reading & Book Signing William Gibson is one of the most forward-thinking novelists...
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SPIRITUAL LIFE at the Temple
Here at U Temple we are trying to form a spiritual life that helps us experience the five pathways of spiritual growth. These pathways are ever present with us, we experience them on and off throughout our lives. What we are trying to do is to become conscious of our life, conscious about God’s involvement with us, conscious about where we are “today”, all for the purpose of coming to that point...
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ABBEY LIFE of the Temple
Throughout the season of Epiphany we will continue to host our Wednesday noon time Meditation Service (Sext). We’re in conversation about ways to evolve our contemplative ministry. Hopefully sometime in 2012 we’ll evolve our Sext-services into a 5 day noon-time prayer chapel. We’re also thinking about adding Matins, a morning time of prayer, and maybe (by the fall) a weekly compline (evening)...
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EPIPHANY
Epiphany is the season of “revelation and illumination”. The post-Christmas Church uses these weeks to seek and see the signs of God’s incarnate presence in human history. We seek to see the Christ in our midst: in our work, on our streets, in our families, amongst our friends and through the stranger. We seek to see how God is involved “with us” in the midst of our daily-doings. The...
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Happy New Year ???
(This is an expanded version of a recent Real Change article — the expansion coming at the end of the RC article.) So here we are in the year 2012, the year in which many believe the world, as we know it, will end. Some think it will end with chaos and catastrophe. Others believe that a new flowering of spiritual consciousness will result in an emergent evolution that will transform life for...
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Equally Called
In front of the manger where God’s gift is placed in the feeding trough of a barn, the shepherds have come to worship a King, just as we do today. Shepherds are the riff-raff of society. They are the poorest of the poor, half slaves owning nothing of their own. They are basically seasonal labor for the benefit of others.The Magi have come to this place too. The Magi are the 1%, they are...
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DROPPING OUR NETS
SERMON: January 22, 2012 Mark 1:14-20 INTRO to Text: The story of Jesus begins with John the baptizer dressed up like Elijah the prophet —Elijah the one who kept calling Israel back to its Torah-bound faith...
Read More
THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD (January 15, 2012)
Sermon: January 15, 2012 Rev. Rich Lang The Good News of God Mark 1:14-15 In Romans the Apostle Paul says: “I am not ashamed of the Gospel; it is the power of God for salvation”. It is the ability of God to...
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TEMPLE TALKS
January starts out with a bang as we cohost three FANTASTIC book events with...
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ABBEY LIFE of the Temple
Throughout the season of Epiphany we will continue to host our Wednesday noon...
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Equally Called
In front of the manger where God’s gift is placed in the feeding trough of...
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Thoughts About the Occupy Movement
The Occupy Movement (OM) continues to have a positive impact on the political...
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Preaching Themes at the Temple
We will focus on the Gospel of Mark throughout 2012. The sermon series,...
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University Temple is a proud leader in ministry outreach to the dislocated throughout this city. Our ministries in the alley, Teen Feed, the Needle Exchange, ROOTS, and the amazingly fantastic Thrift Store, complete with meal, barber and nurse, is as fine an example of what churches ought to be as can be found anywhere. The Spirit of God hovers all around these ministries and pushes us into a future of even greater risk and holy boldness as we build with God a world where everyone belongs and is fed, housed and loved.
This year our goal is to reconnect the joy of our alley ministry with the life and resources of the academy. We are a University-church which means that our spiritual DNA compels us to connect head with heart in a ministry that moves beyond charity into justice. As we bandage the wounds of the afflicted, we confront and convert those systems of oppression that have caused the afflictions. With delight we see the academy (UW) as God-sent partners in a mutual ministry of creative liberation redeeming the social systems of this city.
Great things are going to happen – let’s be bold together!
-Rich
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