FCC Podcast: June 29, 2008
June 29, 2008
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Dr. Tracey Miller, Interim Minister
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A family Feud: Gen. 22:1-14
June 29, 2008
A. The text for today’s message is not the sort of text Joel O’Steen would select—indeed most ministers I think want to avoid it; I know that I have struggled with this story throughout my ministry.
1. The story is about Abraham’s “dark night of the soul.” He believed that the God who had spoken to him promising him a son in his old age was now asking him to sacrifice that son. What a horrible, unthinkable act! Surely God would not ask that of him!
2. There were some in those days who did practice human sacrifice, but certainly Abraham was not one of them! In fact, some have conjectured that that may have been why he left Ur in the first place.
3. This story plays against our logic, our emotions, and our sense of what is right and wrong. In fact, Soren Kierkegaard asked if this story was a “teleological suspension of the ethical.”
4. Does God sometimes call people to do things they know are wrong and that they choose not to do?
5. That certainly seems to be the case here doesn’t it? And one has only to recall Deitrich Bonhoeffer.
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FCC Podcasts: June 22, 2008
June 22, 2008
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Dr. Tracey Miller, Interim Minister
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A Family Feud: Gen. 21:8-21
June 22, 2008
A. I struggled with the name of this sermon, and the idea that no house is big enough for two women was my first thought, but then it occurred to me that they were living in tents, not houses, so the title became “A Family Feud.”
- One of the remarkable aspects of the Hebrew scriptures is the unvarnished presentation of family relationships.
- These documents tell the truth about how some families worked in an unblinking and even painful fashion. For me that is an evidence to the authentic and inspired nature of these writings.
- Many families have their “secrets.” The unpleasant, the inappropriate, and perhaps even embarrassing stories in the family. The family learns that “we just don’t talk about it.”
- But the Hebrew texts present the story of Abraham and Sarah and Hagar in a very candid and unflattering way. The scriptures present to us “a family feud” within the founding family of the Judeo-Christian faiths.
FCC Podcasts: June 15, 2008
June 15, 2008
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Youth Sunday
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FCC Podcasts: June 8, 2008
June 8, 2008
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Dr. Tracey Miller, Interim Minister
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FCC Podcasts: June 1, 2008
June 1, 2008
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Guest Minister, Rick Reisinger, Church Extension
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