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Showing posts with label 48.Intercession.Service.Ministry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 48.Intercession.Service.Ministry. Show all posts
2025-03-05

The Inclusive Gospel of School Chaplaincy

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Especially on Christian High Holy Days like Ash Wednesday, I am asked how School Chaplains proclaim the Good News of Jesus in the midst of a...
2024-03-18

Acts and Afterlife, Hope and Gospel

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Recently a friend online posted this quote: "In all of the evangelistic sermons in the Book of Acts, none of them makes an appeal to af...
2023-07-20

A Provocation on Mencken and Saving Humanity

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Every so often a cautionary quote about philanthropy makes its rounds, warning us against those who claim to have the best interests of othe...
2022-05-26

Where should we pray?

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With all the troubling news that happens on a regular basis, we are inundated with people telling us they are offering their “thoughts and p...
2021-01-27

Chaplaincy and Spirituality at TMI

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The essay found here originally appeared as the description of the Spirituality Pillar at TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas in San An...
2020-04-01

Problematic Pandemic Posts

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Are we making the Pandemic more toxic by what we post online?  A s we enter into the second month of the United States’ response to the...
2020-03-16

Prayer Resources for COVID19

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The following is the text of an email I sent out to the faculty, staff, and families of my school community. I post this as a resource to...
2019-10-04

When Forgiveness is Inconvenient

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What captures my attention most often is what is wrong with the world: The craven and the cruel, the unjust and the outrageous, the hypoc...
2017-09-13

Following Jesus without God?

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As many who read this blog know, I am a Christian priest who serves as a school chaplain and head of religious studies at an Episcopal Mi...
2015-09-21

1Peter 5.2-3 and the motives of pastoral ministry

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1Peter 5:2-3 Tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would h...
2013-03-30

On "The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry"

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The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry is actually a pretty huge topic, and I don't have all night to write on it! I think that thi...
2011-01-27

The Sacrament of Servanthood

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Based on Matthew 25.31-46 Copyright 2011 © The Rev. Nate Bostian I want to start today by doing something that every preaching manual, a...
2009-12-01

Which Holy Crap Must Go?

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A friend sent me an incredible article by Walter Russell Mead called " The Holy Crap Must Go ". Well, this article struck quite a...
2009-05-25

A PASSION FOR UNITY

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Copyright © 2009 Nathan L. Bostian A Sermon for Year B, 7th Easter Based on Acts 1:15-26, John 17:11b-19 Today Jesus prayed that we wo...
2009-04-18

The Greater Miracle

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An Easter Sermon based on Acts 5:29-32, Colossians 3:1-14, Luke 24:13-35 Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe that God CAN reach in...
2008-04-18

Campus Minister Receives Evangelism Award [Sat 19-Apr 11am]

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The Late +Donis Patterson, Bishop of Dallas Our Campus Minister, Nate Bostian, has received the "Bishop Donis Patterson" award ...
2007-10-21

MY ADDRESS TO DIOCESE CONVENTION 2007

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Well, this weekend was the annual convention for the Diocese of Dallas. There was a possibility of things being really contentious (with e...
2007-06-11

To Matt on the Problem of Petitionary Prayer

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My buddy Matt Tapie recently wrote a blog that deals with faith in God and the problem of petitionary prayer (i.e. Prayers that ask God to D...
2006-01-20

They don't get it but maybe they will someday

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I just switched over media players on my computer, and I am tidying up my music collection.  You find some strange and wonderful things when...
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2006-01-07

God tricked me into reading it again...

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At one of my Pre-Christmas Youth Minister gatherings we had a "book exchange" instead of a gift exchange.  I love and hate book ex...