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November 2000

Loopholes

November 6, 2000

Editor’s note: These remarks, which were prepared for delivery at the 2000 Covenant Conference, are as good an example as any of why many of us in Covenant Network have arrived at the understanding we have. Can anyone question that Hugh is called to be a deacon? Hugh as it turned out was too ill [...]

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Knowing What’s Important

November 5, 2000

Knowing What’s Important Sermon for East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh 5 November 2000  Mark 12: 28-34; Lev. 19: 1-7, 13-21, 37  Pamela Byers Elder, Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, and Executive Director, Covenant Network of Presbyterians Our text this morning, the lectionary text being read in thousands of churches in many denominations today, is [...]

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It’s Waiting

November 4, 2000

2000 Covenant Conference Closing Worship, November 4, 2000 Sermon  It’s Waiting Isaiah 65: 17-25, Acts 2:1-13 Scott D. Anderson Executive Director, California Council of Churches Sacramento, CA Several years ago a pastor in my Presbytery, Brad van Sant, and I were invited to co-lead a workshop on “The Church and Homosexuality” at a Synod youth [...]

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Biblical Authority: A Personal Reflection

November 3, 2000

Address to the 2000 Covenant Conference Pittsburgh, PA November 3, 2000 Walter Brueggemann Professor of Old Testament Columbia Theological Seminary  The issue of the authority of the Bible is a perennial and urgent one for those of us who claim and intend to stake our lives on its attestation. But for all of the perennial [...]

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Struggling with Scripture

November 3, 2000

Address to the 2000 Covenant Conference Pittsburgh, PA November 3, 2000 William C. Placher Professor of Religion Wabash College I got this Bible when I was a kid, back in Peoria, for graduating from the fourth grade Sunday School class. It has been with me pretty much ever since. From reading the Bible, more than [...]

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The Last Word on Biblical Authority

November 3, 2000

Address to the 2000 Covenant Conference Pittsburgh, PA November 3, 2000  Brian Blount Professor of New Testament Princeton Theological Seminary   Several weeks ago, when I was finally putting my thoughts for this talk down on paper, a friend asked what the title of my lecture would be. I said tentatively, testing the waters a [...]

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