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Pastor Colin Landry

Pastor's Notes

True Religion vs. Gnosticism

March 8, 2007 – 10:03 am

William Blake said, “If you would do good, you must do it in Minute Particulars.”

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Proverbs and Plowing

January 25, 2007 – 9:28 am

Part of the savvy and cunning of living well is factoring in a God who has declared His investments and opinions, and then making decisions accordingly. In other words, living well is not just doing the smart thing, it is also doing the good thing.

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Think Small

January 19, 2007 – 10:54 am

A hankering for the spectacular and grandiose is not a first century Temple Judaism problem; it is a human problem; as is being captivated by generalities and broad slogans; as is choosing the abstract concept over the concrete reality. For example, how many times did Jesus remind us of our duty to love humanity? The answer is, surprisingly, zero. Instead you are to love your neighbor as yourself.

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Governance in the World to Come

December 14, 2006 – 12:57 am

The big question that Hebrews 1 & 2 addresses is: Who will rule in God’s world to come?
The phrase “world to come” threatens to turn our minds into mush, unless we ascertain the big truth: that it denotes God’s goal of history, the time in which His various purposes will be accomplished: 1) [...]

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El-Roi

December 6, 2006 – 12:44 am

God knows all, past, present, and future. But to read the Bible is not just to lift concepts from its pages; it is to wrestle with words and let all the words – even the metaphors, anthropomorphisms, anthropopathisms, analogies, and so on – give us our ideas of reality.

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