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Nathan E. Lewisliving the gospel
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Listen to the audio recording of this first of three presentations at Westminster Seminary in California, April 21, 2009 or read my manuscript following.
Lecture One
The Church Good for the World:
Salt and Light Metaphors Inform Church Planting
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listen to the audio recording of this second lecture presented at Westminster Seminary in California, April 22.
Lecture Two
Let it Alone for this Year:
The Patient Gardener Metaphor Informs Church Planting
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listen to the audio recording of this lecture presented at Westminster Seminary in California on April 23.
Lecture Three
The Evolution of Evergreen Church Planting
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In preparation to preach Psalm 84 I have been listening to Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem over and over again, allowing the beauty of the music wash over me. Most of the memorials and funerals I have attended have rightly given time for loved ones to speak about the deceased and yet I have come away wishing to hear more divine consolation flowing from the very words of God. Brahms intentionally chose the words of Scripture (and yes, a few Apocryphal texts) as the words of his Requiem and I would rest well in my casket until the final day of resurrection should the Requiem be the only words spoken at my funeral (if only I could afford the Oregon Symphony and a choir!) In the fourth movement, the center of the Requiem, Brahms set some of the lines of Psalm 84 to music and it is a moving and abiding comfort. Indeed for many in western civilization, Psalm 84 is ever connected to this masterpiece. Recently, members of the congregation I serve have laid to rest their beloved and I can think of few sources of comfort so powerfully assembled as Ein deutsches Requiem. Below is the text of the Requiem with my inserted notes. Continue reading »
Evergreen Presbyterian Church, in the Portland, Oregon area has gone mult-site! You are invited to worship at the Beaverton site and you may also worship in Newberg on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. at the SDA site on College St. Visit www.evergreenpca.com for directions to all four of our sites. Mult-site strategy allows us to expand Mission to Oregon.
The name of Evergreen Presbyterian Church was chosen to reflect the biblical imagery of the spiritual growth of God’s children. Psalm 1 teaches that the righteous person is “like a tree planted by streams of water who yields its fruit in season and whose leaves do not wither.�? Psalm 92:12-15 describes the spiritual growth of the righteous: “The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, proclaiming, ‘The Lord is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.’”