Saturday, January 15, 2011

Reconciling Belief with Knowledge

Reconciling Belief with Knowledge
By Kevin Finkenbinder
     Life seems to be full of many things: troubles, pain, insights, learning and joys.  In a traditional social economy, each person is trying to minimize the first two items while maximizing the last two items.  Saying that God's economy takes the opposite view would be false, yet it is false to believe that God wants us to seek insights, learning, and joy at the expense of avoiding who we are in our innermost beings.  It is also false to believe that God does not want us to experience troubles and pain.  I have known these truths in my head

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Youth Camp Quiet Time Handout

This file is not a sermon, but is a handout I was asked to make for the Metamorphosis Youth Camp in Northern Michigan for 2010.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Questions for a Prospective Church

Please prayerfully consider the following questions.  Please solicit input on the answers from many members of the church, including members of the pastoral search committee. If these questions are useful to you, you may wish to forward this same information to other pastors/staff you are interviewing.