The Rules of Improv: Characters and Relationships
2 Kings 5:1-17 Sermon Audio In 2009,America’s longest running soap opera aired its final episode. Seventy two years and more than 15,000 episodes after its first broadcast as a radio program in 1937, Guiding Light’s main characters drove off into the sunset for their next adventure and left millions of fans hanging. Seventy two years [...]
The Rules of Improv: Characters and Relationships
The Rules of Improv: Characters and Relationships 2 Kings 5:1-17 In 2009,America’s longest running soap opera aired its final episode. Seventy two years and more than 15,000 episodes after its first broadcast as a radio program in 1937, Guiding Light’s main characters drove off into the sunset for their next adventure and left millions of [...]
The Rules of Improv: Change, Change, Change!
The Rules of Improv: Change, Change, Change! Mark 1:29-39 I’d like to begin today with a rather unusual approach to examining the text. Look down your pew…these are the people with whom you will now commence to tell a story, in full, from start to finish. I’ll begin, then the person on the furthest left [...]
The Rules of Improv: Change, Change, Change!
Mark 1:29-39 Sermon Audio I’d like to begin today with a rather unusual approach to examining the text. Look down your pew…these are the people with whom you will now commence to tell a story, in full, from start to finish. I’ll begin, then the person on the furthest left (my right) of your pew [...]
Poetry Corner
The Old Poets of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into [...]
The Rules of Improv: Take Action
Mark 1:14-20 Sermon Audio Every year around this time the family of Calvary Baptist Church takes a step back to think about what it is we are doing here on this corner of Washington, DC, trying our best to be followers of Jesus and to live together in Christian community in such a way that [...]
The Rules of Improv: Anything is Possible
1 Samuel 3:1-10 Sermon Audio Rev. Amy K. Butler Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that a pastor would arrive at church on Sunday morning, having emailed herself the sermon for that day…only to find that the Internet is completely down at church. So, she takes a very small jump drive and [...]
The Rules of Improv: Fill in the Blanks
Matthew 2:1-12 Sermon Audio Rev. Dr. Amy Butler Happy new year to you all. It feels great to be here in worship beginning the new year together after a hectic holiday season. Welcome back, and a special thank you to all of you who were with us in worship on Christmas and New Year Days. [...]
Poetry Corner
for the week of Epiphany… Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that [...]
It’s All About You
It’s funny to me. Today is all about you, Jesus, but we never hear how you felt or what you did. Joseph packed up the family and traveled to Bethlehem; Mary gave birth; the shepherds watched their sheep and the angels sang; the wise men traveled from afar. But what about you? How did you [...]
