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How To Be A Christian Without Being A Jerk
Faith in real life
Will your loved ones know you in eternity?
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Why we call it “Good”…
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Notes

Today is Maundy Thursday. "Maundy" is from the Latin word, "mandatum," and connects to the teaching Jesus gives at the Last Supper when he says, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." (John 13:34 NASB) Apparently the teaching didn't sink in. The disciples begin arguing who is the greatest among them, like some kind of sports talk show (Luke 22:24). The greatest doesn't have to ask. He is the one in their midst always.
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What is our role in Holy Week?
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a strange hotel experience…

I did a quick road trip with son, Greg, up to No. Cal to visit UCSC and CSUMB. Stayed at a hotel that is also used for student housing at Santa Cruz. What a strange experience for the student who ends up there. Not only is this miles from campus, but it is a normal business hotel with conference center and all.
Do you have your room cleaned every day? That would take all the fun out of the tension of having one roommate who is OCD and the other is a throw-your-clothes-wherever-they-will-land-type. Can you personalize your room? Can you take down the picture of the meadow from that famous artist in China so you can hang up your Farah Fawcett poster? O, sorry dated myself a bit there, 'eh? Is there an RA? Does the guy at the front desk listen as you talk about getting dumped by your girlfriend? So many questions…Posted via email from how to be a christian without being a jerk!
What, me worry?- podcast
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Sermon Mar 21 2010 – Worry.mp3 (5650 KB)
Anxiety and worry do not come from God. Jesus has the antidote.
So, doctor, what interest rate will I receive for that college loan?
I don't have specific insight about whether the health-care reform bill will be a good thing or not. Actually, I have no idea what just happened this past week with the health-care situation.
Neither does anyone else.
Many regulations that were passed within the bill haven't even been written. So, none of the lawmakers can say they completely understand what they just did.
This is called a health-care "reform" bill, but if Congress doesn't know what is being "reformed," because they don't know what was specifically "formed" that needed to be reformed, well…
One thing they do know is that Federal college loans will move from the private sector to the government. A wise or foolish provision? I can't say.
What I can say is I don't naturally think, "O yeh, college loans," when you mention "heath-care."
I have no idea what just happened this past week, but I am in good company. Neither does anyone else.
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do you have enough?
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Sermon Mar 14 2010 -Greed.mp3 (7412 KB)
What does it mean to have enough? What do you really treasure?
Thinking about Birds…

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. (Luke 12:6 NIV)
My friend, Kjell Austad has a bird feeder in his backyard where he and his wife, Nancy can watch the birds. Spending time in the quiet of the morning watching the various birds come and go brought Kjell to think about this passage from the Bible.
“Some of the birds that feed here must be the same ones from day to day. If God knows every bird, I wonder if I could recognize any single bird? “
Kjell says the various birds do look different and have individual characteristics. I wonder if one of them will become memorable enough?
God knows them all. From the eagle that nests in the big pine tree on the shore of my parent’s cottage on Big Stone Lake in Wisconsin to the poor pigeon that must have died in flight and just came tumbling down from the night sky out of nowhere in front of my car on Roscoe Boulevard. My son was with me, and we both kind of looked at each other and said, “Did you see that?”
Well, we know God did.
The estimate of the global bird population is from 200 to 400 billion birds (“How many birds are there? Biodiversity and Conservation). That is quite a range of difference, yet not for God. He knows the exact number and He knows every one.
Interesting that Jesus uses the “sparrow” as an example of an abundant and ubiquitous bird, as the most widespread and commonly seen wild bird in the world is probably the European House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)!
If God is caring for every one of those sparrows I don’t think we have anything to worry about. At least that is what Jesus thinks.
So, Kjell, make any bird friends, yet?
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