The Day the Music Lived

Where can you eat, learn, and sing all in one evening? Summer Choir Festival 2012! Don’t be alarmed. You don’t need to be in a choir or even able to carry a tune in a bucket in order to participate. In fact, if people turn the radio up when you sing, this is your event—for everyone’s sake. The Festival welcomes all kinds and all ages and includes childcare, so busy dads and moms can learn along with their kids. You’ll not only hear and sing beautiful music, but also learn history, poetry, biography, and musicianship in classes taught by various teachersIt runs Monday through Friday, June 18-22, 5:30-8:30pm, and the cost before May 28th is just $50/per person with a $200 maximum per family. Children and adults who attend (and eat) but don’t participate are just $25ea. Schedule: 5:30-6:15 Dinner…

Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 by Pastor Jerry Owen

Holy Callings

During the Medieval era, monasticism was held as the highest ideal. While the legendary industriousness of the monks was a principal force behind the culturative development of Europe, the practice of celibacy was a de facto denial of the normative goodness of marriage and the culturative commandment to fill the earth. Formal worship and prayer were seen to have paramout importance; all else was seen as a diversion from this “highest” of godly callings. The Reformation brought a strong biblical correction to the medieval understanding of culturative things. Marriage and and work in all its variety, having been instituted by the—David…

Posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 by Pastor Jerry Owen

Reading Straight Through

Because the Scripture is a corpus, a living whole, the so-called lectio continua or consecutive reading must be adopted for Scripture reading in the family fellowship. Historical books, prophets, Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation are read and heard as God’s Word in their context. They set the listening fellowship in the midst of the wonderful world of revelation of the people of Israel with its prophets, judges, kings, and priests, its wars, festivals, sacrifices, and sufferings. The fellowship of believers is woven into the Christmas story, the baptism, the miracles and teaching, the suffering, dying, and rising again of Jesus Christ. It—Dietrich…

Posted on Monday, April 30, 2012 by Pastor Jerry Owen