Change For What You Believe In: A Sermon for 23 Pentecost 2009
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Through the River: Understanding Your Assumptions About Truth by Jon & Mindy Hiebert with Dr. Pa
I like the way people like Jon and Mindy Hurst work. I appreciate people who can take complicated and misused or abused concepts and place them in a context in which they might be rationally considered, discussed, and enacted. The Hurst's have done this with the hot-button concept of truth in their book Through the River. From Pilate's question to the arrested Jesus, "What is truth?" to our post-modern contemporary skirmishes between individuals and denominations, truth is a concept that often resists the close

Have you checked out Mt. Olivet Plymouth's new Wednesday night worship and education yet?
We have had a wonderful October with an all-new Wednesday evening schedule that includes a meal, worship and education. I am putting some pictures up from our worship time which is led by Jacy Pelstring and Eli Elstad and their band Clarety Drive.

Matt Weinstein: Go Ahead -- Put A Book In The Freezer!
Matt Weinstein: Go Ahead -- Put A Book In The Freezer!: Some 25 years ago I took a class with the conceptual performance artist Kenneth Maue called "Water in the Lake," named after his book of that title. Why "Water in the lake?" Because that was the first thing we did on the first day of class -- we traveled to a local lake, and each of us poured a glass of water in the lake. That was it. Class dismissed. My favorite session was a class where each of us sat in a darkened room together with

Simple Life: Time, Relationships, Money, God by Thom and Art Rainier: A Review
Simple Life is a big book. That was my first impression. My second was this: those authors must have a sense of humor if they think I have the time to read this book on creating a Simple Life! The reality is this, something is wrong with how people are living life and the Rainer's (father and son) have not only put their finger on the problem, as many have, but, have even done research into the issue with a strong sample and a margin of error of 2.9%. Their research showed them four areas that people generally find them