Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed: 08/26/17

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Front-Door — Illumine Church - Another Regular Luther, Doncha Know

Front-Door — Illumine Church:

"AUGUST 4, 2017
FRONT-DOOR

INSPIRATION

A church website has, for some time, been the front door to the church.

Many surveys have indicated that before anyone crosses the threshold of a church building, they check out the website to see if it will be the kind of place they're looking for. Whether they are concerned about style, ethnic makeup, doctrine, or denomination, the website typically gives them enough of an idea to satisfy. (If it doesn't...they don't go.)

Illumine's website certainly serves that purpose, but there's a bigger idea that the recent redesign is meant to make possible. Should the website be a front door? Yes. But what if it could also be the foyer, and the living room. What if it could even be the kitchen? (This all builds off of a metaphor that organizations use to talk about how deeply people commit. Sometimes, it's just the doorstep, and they're out. Sometimes they go all the way, getting so comfortable they start pitching in and helping out in the kitchen.)

I'd like illuminechurch.com to make that possible.

This website should be a place where you can benefit from the ministry efforts Illumine offers at very nearly the same level as you would if you were at all the live, physical events. If you want to worship, do it now. Watch/listen to a sermon. Sing with the music. If you want to learn, nothing should stop you. Dig into the resources. Follow the links provided. If you want to serve, you should be able to do it from your computer. Become informed. Contribute. Knock some tasks off of lists.

It's not all here yet. But it is coming. This church doesn't need to be limited by location. Come see Jesus, in worship, in education, in community service. Come see life better.

Welcome to the new illuminechurch.com.

- Pastor Kent Reeder

P.S. (Are these allowed on blogs?) 500 years ago, minus a few months, a monk started with the front door of a church and changed the world. I'm not saying this website will do that, but the internet is changing the way these front doors work..."

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2016 Change or Die! - Feminist Social Gospel Movement - AND a Fulleroid

She is adjunct faculty for the Micah Doctorate of Ministry for the New York Theological Seminary, Spanish MDiv and School of Intercultural Studies for Fuller Theological Seminary, Masters in Urban Studies at Eastern University, Maestria at Universidad Teologica de la Iglesia Apostolica, MDiv at the New Theological Seminary of the West, Haiti Partners Interseminary Micah Program, Duke Divinity School Summer Intensive, and has taught at Vanguard and Biola Universities as well as lecturing at a variety of academic institutions, including the University of Southern California and UCLA. From 2000 to 2011, she was the Executive Director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice—beginning as the director of CLUE in Los Angeles and then as the first CLUE-CA director.

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Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is the Executive Director of CLUE-CA (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice of California), a statewide alliance of interfaith organization of religious leaders who come together to respond to the crisis of working poverty by joining low-wage workers in their struggle for a living wage, health insurance, fair working conditions and a voice in the decisions that affect them.

Progress Report on The Sermons of Martin Luther, Volumes 3 and 4

Gregory L. Jackson books on Amazon.

Volume III is virtually complete.

I began working on Volume IV today and did 100 pages - with excellent help from our volunteer editors.

Volume V will complete the Gospel series, with three more on the Epistles.

The final volume, which I expect to be slimmer and smaller in size, with a full color interior, will be the Gems from Luther's Sermons. We are accumulating them to use as a sampler, to kelm a term from WELS, easily passed along and shared with others.