The Pulpiteer

This week’s message comes from Colossians 1:15-29 and it comes from a very Christocentric portion of scripture.  In it, Christ is described as creator, sustainer, and redeemer.  The message focuses on Christ and the story of salvation – creation, fall, redemption, and new creation.  The image in this post is the one I had in worship to provide a visual to the message.  I cite a quote from one of my seminary professors, Dr. Stone.  If you want to read his whole blog post (it’s a good one) click here.  Also, I attempted a quick rendition of “Better All the Time,” which I’ve heard by the Blind Boys of Alabama.  Here is a link I could find that may get you to that song.

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This weeks message is from 1 Kings 18:20-40, the story of Elijah battling the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel.  It’s a crazy story, and one of my favorites.  It was also a very challenging story to wrestle with last week.  I find that I’ve got more in common with the people of Israel, many times, then I care to think about.  Elijah continues to call us to worship God and God alone.

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I’ve been wanting to post a link to a couple of sermons by a seminary friend of mine from Pennsylvania, Seth McPherson (pictured here, right side up).  The first sermon is one from awhile ago that deals with beauty and thinking about beauty from a Christian perspective.  He interviews the beauty editor for Seventeen Magazine, and it’s a pretty interesting message.

The second message is from two weeks ago, and the neat thing is that we both preached from the same text in 2 Kings – Elijah going up in the whirlwind.  We emphasized two different things and it was neat to hear Seth after I had studied the passage myself.  So, here is the link to that sermon.

Enjoy.  And if you do, remember that we are both Asbury Seminary trained and approved.  Oh, and I should mention – Seth has some awesome tatoos, but I couldn’t find pictures of them on his website.  So send him email if you’re interested…

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This week’s sermon comes from 2 Kings 2:1-14 and it is the story of the healing of Naaman the Aramean general.  God takes an unclean enemy – Naaman, and heals him.  This is the sort of thing God does.  The shocking thing is that God does this through fairly normal means – just washing in the Jordan.  This message is a sacramental message, pushing us to think of the extraordinary things that God does in and through the ordinary.  During this message, my sister-in-law, Lisa, was painting a response to the word.  I’ll post a picture later.  It was pretty cool.

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