DiaLogos Sermon Series Blog

3/7/2014

During Lent, a season of self-examination and self-discipline that leads to Holy Week and Easter, our sermon series each week is a dialogue between Pastor Rob and a Broadway member. We hope that these messages will spur further thoughts and comments here from those in worship, from the radio broadcast, and from friends on the internet.

Do what extent do you think of your faith journey as an ongoing conversation with God? Sometimes that conversation includes clarity and answers, while at other times it includes questions and uncertainty.

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Jake

3/11/2014 02:19:14 am

A conversation, a dialogue, involves one speaking and one listening, but I seem to do more talking that listening in my conversation with God. I am always asking, pleading, sometimes even demanding, and I assume that God is listening. Maybe I need to figure out how to listen more. I am not sure what that means, to listen to God, but maybe that is where discipline (becoming a disciple) comes in. Maybe if I listened more then I wouldn't have to ask as much. Hmm.

Rev. Rob

3/11/2014 04:30:58 am

Jake, Mother Teresa was asked by Dan Rather about her prayer life. Here is an excerpt from that conversation:

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“When you pray, what do you say to God?”

Mother Teresa replied, “I don’t talk, I simply listen.”

Believing he understood what she had just said, Rather next asked, “Ah, then what is it that God says to you when you pray?”

Mother Teresa replied, “He also doesn’t talk. He also simply listens.”

There was a long silence, as Rather seemed a bit confused and not knowing what to ask next.

Finally Mother Teresa broke the silence by saying, “If you can’t understand the meaning of what I’ve just said, I’m sorry but there’s no way I can explain it any better.”
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In our post-"Enlightenment" mind set, we don't do quite so well with mystery. We do well with mathematical and scientific data, but poetry often gets reduced to iambic pentameter instead of emotional resonance; music is whole notes, half notes, quarter notes - music as math instead of music as emotion, passion, feel over technique, and mystery over mechanics. How might we become better with mystery, with not knowing, yet still seeking?

Derek & Lisa

3/18/2014 05:32:15 am

We have talked about mystery and have decided that we don't have a clue. (Ha ha!) Actually it is fascinating that God has created us as curious, analytic, thinking beings, yet the ultimate questions about God are unattainable to us. God wants us to seek but not necessarily to grasp all the answers. Now that is mysterious.

Don Davies

4/10/2022 09:11:57 am

A church sermon like this must be spread by all of us to others who need to hear or read it. The wise words of great pastors like Keion Henderson, https://www.keionhenderson.com/sermons/ are what we need the young generation to hear and read for them to really get the message of God clearly and truthfully!

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