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Sermon Video with Rev. Dr. Roger L. Ray, Community Christian Chuch
Coffee and Poetry – a Valentine’s Reflection
Frida Kahlo wrote the ultimate lovers’ poem that concludes with this assurance, “You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.” In this age when couples typically no longer stay married out of economic necessity or for mere survival, what is it that keeps people together. Even more, what inspires a couple who are already past child bearing years or even career concerns, to sacrifice independence and freedom in order to share a common life? I think that it is meaning we seek even more than a mere surcease of loneliness. What we really want is not just someone with whom to share our morning coffee but also someone who will read poetry to us. Is that too much to ask, or do we, as Kahlo suggests, what we deserve?
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Dr. Roger L. Ray
pastor, The Emerging Church
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Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality
Join us for our upcoming online course entitled, "Spiritual Leadership in a time of Cultural Upheaval and Despair" - 9 Days (13.5 hours) of immersion into the topic of spiritual leadership with Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox and other distinguished leaders including Vera de Chalambert Author, Joran Slane Oppelt, Rabbi Victor Gross, Rob Mcnamara and Abby Wells.Dr. John Dominic Crossan: The Contemporary Challenge of Easter
Southminster Presbyterian Church of Beaverton, Oregon will host Dr. John Dominic Crossan on April 5-6th. Dr. Crossan is a respected scholar and author of more than two dozen books about the New Testament, early Christianity, the historical Jesus and much more. His lectures are invariably insightful and inspiring, whether the listener has read all his books or none.
This program will take place just weeks before Easter and will focus on how Jesus’ death and resurrection are presented in the texts, and how those events have been interpreted through the ages.
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