Theophilus Cafe is a place where you can ponder a question or issue that I post. Think of the Cafe as a virtual coffee house where you can gather with your friends and discuss the posted topic or just reflect on it. Please post your thoughts or response on this topic in the comments. So the question today is: Is God a noun or a verb?
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Change Is Good, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on January 22, 2012, on Jonah 3:1-5,10 and MK 1:11-20
If I had to give a one word summary of what our readings for today are all about I would have to say they are about change. Now one of the things that I have learned over the years is how resistant to change we sometimes can be. I think in some respects we resist change because we believe it gives us control over our lives, so in general we like things to stay the way they are. We have even created a name to sort of hide the fact that we don’t like change so we call it our comfort zone. So we like to stay and move about within our own comfort zone, our own personal bubble, where we live out our lives and create for ourselves what we hope in some ways will be an everlasting unchanging now. Continue Reading »
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H Two O, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on January 8, 2012, on MK 1:4-11
When I was a little boy, in the dog days of summer, I liked to lay on my back in the fields of tall grass behind my house and look up in the sky at those big puffy white, fair weather cumulus clouds, that usually formed in the early afternoon. I’m sure all of you have done that as well and part of the fun while looking up at the clouds was using your imagination to see what the cloud shapes could be, maybe a bird like a dove, or a dragon, a big dog, or perhaps a castle. Part of the wonder for me was also how the clouds got up there. Water floating in the sky seemed like magic to me.
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Do not quench the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turn away from the living God. (Hebrews 3:12)
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Here is a great reading plan, 
oneyearbiblereadingplan.pdf (from www.oneyearbibleonline.com) , to start reading the Bible every day for 2012. The plan provides an Old Testament and a New Testament reading for each day along with a reading from Psalms and Proverbs. If you have been wanting to read the entire Bible then this is the plan for you.
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A great book on the eschatology by Candido Pozo.
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Begotten, Not Made, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on December 18,2011, on Luke 1:26-38
When I was a young boy one of things I liked to do was to read science fiction books. One thing that really caught my attention was the idea of time travel. I thought it would be really cool to have a time machine and go see what things were really like years and years ago or journey into the future and see how technology will change our lives. Continue Reading »
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Theophilus Cafe is a place where you can ponder a question or issue that I post. Think of the Cafe as a virtual coffee house where you can gather with your friends and discuss the posted topic or just reflect on it. Please post your thoughts or response on this topic in the comments. So the question today is: What is the least you can believe and still be a Christian?
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“Universal love and preference for the poor distinguish the message of the divine reign that both purifies human history and transcends it. Sin, which is the refusal to accept the message, brings Jesus to his death; the cross is the result of the resistance of those who refuse to accept the unmerited and demanding gift of God’s love.” Gustavo Gutierrez from On Job: God Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent
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People Get Ready, a sermon given by Ron Fournier at St. Mark on November 27, 2011, on MK 13:24-37
Good Morning! Today marks the beginning of the season of Advent and the start of our new Church Year, so on behalf of the church, Happy New Year! Advent is celebrated on the first four Sunday’s before Christmas. The word Advent comes from the Latin word adventus which means “arrival or coming into being,” and in the Christian sense of the word, we use it to describe the coming of Christ into the world.
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