Author: Steve

  • October 21, 2008
    We continue to exegete a congregation. From the beginning Highland planned for disobedience. In determining the size of the new…
  • October 17, 2008
    Highland, like Israel before them, has always had a problem with obedience. If indeed Israel wanted the pharaohs of this…
  • October 16, 2008
    Historically, on October 27,1949, a group of members of First Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem petitioned The Presbytery of Winston-Salem to…
  • October 15, 2008
    The center of all else that happens in the human relationship with God begins in worship. Without the act of…
  • October 14, 2008
    By reading its almost fifty years of history through the minutes of the Session, I am attempting to listen for…
  • October 13, 2008
    To exegete Scripture is to study a passage of Scripture with the intention of understanding and interpreting it. From a…
  • October 10, 2008
    When we have an active community of the faithful who continually seek to listen as they are addressed by Christ,…
  • October 9, 2008
    One of the important missions of the church is to provide an “alternate world” through which people can experience their…
  • October 8, 2008
    Even when we are part of a culture that is heavily shaped by a certain language and mindset, the presence…
  • September 29, 2008
    Walter Brueggeman, in his book, Israel’s Praise, (Foretress Press, Philadelphia, 1988) explores the world-making task of liturgy. He suggests that…