Tag: mind

Heart and mind

Heart and mind (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Philippians 4:1-9
October 12, 2014

Here’s the thing …

On the one hand, you have Orthodox worship.  It’s all about pageantry, about sounds and sights and smells and drama, celebrated in elaborate worship spaces filled with burning candles and sacred objects and images.  Images everywhere.  Art everywhere.  It’s all about beauty — beautiful images, beautiful objects, beautiful music — for God’s benefit, to give God honor, but also for the benefit of the worshippers, to inspire a sense of wonder and awe. … Continue reading ...

Feeling it

Feeling it (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Matthew 22:34-40
October 26, 2014

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

Two weeks ago, we talked about loving God with all your mind, following the lead of the Presbyterians.  We talked about the importance of using our minds, of thinking clearly, of doing Bible study: not just winging it, not just making it up as we go along, not just following our gut, not just doing what we’ve always done because we’ve always done it that way, but listening to God, paying attention to God’s word, becoming smart about our faith, becoming capable critics both of culture and of religion, becoming wise enough to discern between what is genuine and what is false, between what comes from God and what is just so much hogwash.… Continue reading ...