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Latest thoughts from First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood Pastor, Dan Baumgartner
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Friday, 29 July 2011
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Friday, 22 July 2011
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Friday, 15 July 2011
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Friday, 08 July 2011
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Friday, 01 July 2011
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July 1, 2011
“On
Reading”
When
people ask me what I do with my free time, I usually say: I love to exercise- especially running,
lifting weights and biking right now. I
like to putter around the garden just a little bit. And I love to read. Widely, deeply and across various disciplines
and genres.
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Saturday, 18 June 2011
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June 10, 2011
If I Lose My Way
Question: Do pastors ever
have bad days, get discouraged or ask themselves what on earth they are doing?
Short answer: Yes.
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Friday, 10 June 2011
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June 10, 2011
You are invited to wear RED on Sunday for
our Pentecost worship celebration!”
In It Together
Two weeks ago I sat in a conference room with our amazing
Youth Ministry staff, and six of the youth who are in the Confirmation
class. I loved that time, talking about
our faith in Jesus and hearing them wonder about next steps on that journey. At one point I asked them to consider the
different metaphors that are used for the Church. “Body” emphasizes the vital need for
a variety of differentiated parts. “Hospital” helps focus us on the
idea that everyone in a faith community is broken or hurt in some way, and our
mutual need for Christ’s healing. “Community” is helpful in remembering
that the church isn’t a building, but a group of people. “Family” grounds us in our relationship to God and to one
another. It also reminds us, sometimes
to our chagrin, that we don’t get to choose our family members! Then we talked about “Team.” This one brings together a number of elements
from the others: the need to work
together, the appreciation of different gifts, the necessity to move the same
direction.
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Friday, 03 June 2011
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High on my current endangered
species list are what may strike you as unlikely suspects: words. It’s not that words are actually
disappearing. But we are ruining them
one at a time, through overuse or misuse or increasingly flabby listening
skills. Words which once carried great
weight are now throwaways. But there are
exceptions, and I kept running into one of them this week. Grace.
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Friday, 27 May 2011
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Once upon a time back in the 1980’s I was a businessman, and an elder at our church.
I dutifully attended session
meetings and sat at a long conference table similar to one in the
executive meeting room at my company. The meetings tended to wander
aimlessly and endlessly, and we spent most of our energy on things of
little importance, and almost all of our time on “business.” I usually went home numb and frustrated.
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Friday, 27 May 2011
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More graffiti. Early this morning I drove down Hollywood Boulevard on the
way to the office. Sun coming up, palm trees swaying, beautiful morning. The
Boulevard wakes up slowly. Folks who slept in doorways overnight were stirring,
and there were a few earlybirds waiting at bus stops. A couple blocks short of
my Starbucks stop, I glanced up to my right. Near the top of a two-story
building were the three-foot words scrawled in black spray paint: “I’m on it, Jesus!!”
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