Day 1
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Awkward Silences
You see, I wrestle with silence a lot. We have this strange dance, silence and I. I am much more comfortable in silence than I am in large groups of people whose conversations swell and mix together, eventually sounding like static or clucking chickens. I need--I crave--times for silence. But I resist it sometimes as well, behaving like I somehow enjoy having four or five programs or projects going on at the same time. I feel like I'm being so much more productive that way--until it all gets...
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Dr. Fred Craddock - Interview with Peter Wallace
One of America's best known preachers and teachers of preachers, Dr. Fred Craddock, talks with Day1 host Peter Wallace about the art and science of preaching. This is the complete audio podcast version of the video interview that premiered at the 2008 Festival of Homiletics.
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Alabaster Extravagance
As a preacher and worship leader, I'm often fascinated and intrigued by how the stories of scripture and the hymns of the church can offer us theological surprise when we change their context. It often feels like a fresh breeze of the Spirit. For example, in my congregation, if we have a funeral service during the season of Christmas, we'll sometimes sing the famous Christmas Eve hymn, "Silent Night." We seldom hear or sing that hymn outside of evening worship on December 24th. When we sing...
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Love in Transformation
Within our Western culture we believe ourselves, our lives and our homelands to have certain rights when it comes to choosing how we are to live and what we are allowed to do with and within those lives. We often go to great lengths to argue or stand up for or against issues that may be keeping us from those appointed freedoms. We even appoint ourselves gatekeepers for those whom we feel are being kept from those rights. Borders, relationships and law become our battle ground. The depth of...
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An Unexpected Faith
Jesus had a terrible reputation. He spent time with the wrong kind of people. He ate with the grungy and despised of the world. He associated with the worst among us. He reached out to the poor, the broken, the marginalized. In this expansive vision of hope, the gospel reaches full flower. But Jesus also found himself among the powerful of his time. He associated with people of means and influence. He even drew near to the purported enemies of Israel and dared to praise them. Here too the...
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What Kind of Math Is This?
In her book Circle of Quiet Madeleine L'Engle repeats Dorothy Sayers' story of a Japanese man who's politely listening to a Christian who is trying to explain the concept of the Trinity. The Japanese man is very puzzled. "Honorable father, very good. Honorable Son, very good. Honorable Bird I do not understand at all." Madeleine observes, "Very few of us understand 'Honorable Bird,' except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all....
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We've Got Spirit, Yes We Do!
I may not remember everything about my high school days, but I do remember the cheerleaders and several of their spirited yells. One of their yells was, "Two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar, all for LaGrange, stand up and holler!" And whenever our football or basketball teams seemed to hit a dry spot, our cheerleaders would eye the stands and yell out, "We've got spirit, yes we do! We've got spirit, how about you?" From across the field the other team's fans would respond and yell back...
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