Pastor Greg's blog
What? Read the Bible?!? Me?
From the beginning, Jacob's Well has held up the Bible as an important component to growing up spiritually and we deal with it pretty extensively every week in our gatherings. We have also admitted that reading the Bible is not the easiest thing in the world. Mainly because... it isn't. "Wrestling" is the word I often couple with the Bible. You don't just read it, you get down and dirty with it. You become vulnerable to it. You push against it and let it push against you.
It can happen!
This email came to me the other day from someone in the J's W community who is in a Group reading Shane Claiborne's The Irresistible Revolution. I asked permission to post it on the Wall - which I received, so here it is, edited just enough to make it anonymous...
More New York Summer Trip Info
We are still working some things out, but we have lots to tell.
If you are in 8th - 12th grade this school year we welcome you on this mission/adventure trip.
We also have room for adults who wish to come along and help lead and participate.
Here's the info link.
If you are interested or ready to sign up, make sure you let us know at info@jacobs-well.net or 612.822.0300.
Lessons in Prejudice
On Saturday, while picking up trash at Minnehaha Falls, I was thinking about the message I would present with Charity McCoy at Jacob's Well about UnLearning Prejudice. I headed toward the steep, wooded hillside where clandestine groups gather and… let’s just say, leave a mess. I was back for my second load of garbage and checked below the bridge that crosses over to the Veterans Home. I could see garbage everywhere. As soon as I got under the bridge I spotted a man camped out in the shelter of the bridge
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Everyday Miracles
Stop and take a look.
On Sunday our theme was "reFresh." The Sabbath, the quiet, the pause that helps us recenter our lives, that reminds us to "be still and know that i am God."
We had Dove chocolates in a basket for people after the service and my daughter comes up to me with the wrapper from her chocolate which had this message on it. If you can't read the wrapper, click on it and see a larger version - I'm not telling what it says...
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