Comments on: When GBA is Enough, What a Burden to Bear…

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:35:27 +0000

I’ll stop thinking like an ADM.

another soul saved..

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:31:30 +0000

OK Chad, that’s a bar I cannot clear… I’ll stop thinking like an ADM.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:02:02 +0000

lol Neil. You can throw sticks at me all you want but no one has been able to top Dr. Robert Morey who once wrote a paragraph that named me as heretic and it was entirely in Latin!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:01:38 +0000

Neil,

What do Scripture and Church have to do with one another?

jerry

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:53:08 +0000

And to Jerry, if you need to find an “excuse” to read Scripture to your church you too must be part of the neo-liberal-cult of the postmodern-emerging/ancient root-rot heresey.

Look ma, I can write like an ADM too…

Neil

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:50:59 +0000

Chad,

I think you miltiplied your Roman heresy by also having the people respond in unison… that too is a Roman ritual!

hey, this finding fault with others is easy!

Neil

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:57:03 +0000

The candles are only taboo because they could light my alb on fire.

In my defense, I instructed our liturgists not to breath during the ceremony. I didn’t want anyone mistaking them for Buddhists.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:55:11 +0000

Heretic!!!!! How dare you read Scripture while lighting a candle!!!!

I’ll bet you wear some sort of vestments while you preach too, don’t you? You flaming liberal in Rome’s clothing!!!!!

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:50:43 +0000

lol Jerry.

Below is the heresy I had read during our Advent wreath candle lighting…

But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Keep alert, for you do not know when the time will come . . . in the evening, or at midnight, or at dawn. Keep awake. (Mark 13:24-26, 32, 33, 35, 37, NRSV)

Such amazing things happen in the sky to herald the return of the Son of Man:
. . . Jesus, coming in the clouds
. . . the sun grows dark
. . . the moon doesn’t shine
. . . and stars fall from the heavens

So different from that first coming more than 2000 years ago:
. . . with angels singing of God’s glory and peace on earth
. . . with the single star guiding the way to the manger
. . . with shepherds and wisemen — rich and poor — coming to worship.

And so we watch, and wait, and stay alert, waiting again for the coming of Jesus.
And we light a single candle in preparation for that glorious day.

[Light the first candle on the Advent wreath.]

. . . And even if the sun should grow dark
. . . even if the moon refuses to shine
. . . even if the stars should fall from the
sky…

. . . we will have Jesus, the Light of the World, to shine brightly in our hearts, lighting our way.

All: Come, Lord Jesus, come. Amen.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:11:05 +0000

We started using an ‘Advent Wreath’ complete with candles last year at Holidaymass time. It has given us yet another excuse to have to read Scripture during our morning worship. That’s too bad.

Stupid Holidaymass traditions.