What Tea Party Protesters Get Right

by | Mar 1, 2010 | Opinion

I’m a tea drinker, in the morning, alone. I don’t, that is, attend tea parties, whether they be of the social or, more recently, the political types. In fact, I couldn’t care less about the light and polite tea parties that occur in late afternoons....

With Authority From God, Why Don’t We Help?

by | Feb 10, 2010 | Opinion

The story about Jesus rebuking the unclean spirit from a child and giving the child back to the parent is pretty small potatoes compared to all the rest that’s going on in Luke 9. We read about Jesus commissioning the disciples, King Herod beginning his plot...

A Love Body

by | Feb 1, 2010 | General

This sermon was delivered by Larry Greenfield, executive minister of American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago, at Federated Church of Wauconda, Ill., on January 31, 2010.   I Corinthians 13   Good morning, Federated Church. Grace to you and peace from God our Sacred...

Worship Should Be More Than Routine

by | Jan 21, 2010 | Opinion

I had myself pretty well persuaded that the churches claiming to follow in the patterns and practices of Jesus – and that covers almost all of them – were off-base by focusing their programmatic life on worship. As far as I could tell from reading the accounts in the...