Category: SSB Sunday Gathering

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Can you believe we are at the end of another year? Where does the time go? May this new year to come provide peace of mind and heart. Scripture is taken from the Book of Common Prayer, Readings… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – December 31, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.     -by Kathi Today is the fourth Sunday of Advent. Advent season is meant to be a time of celebration; celebrating the birth of Christ and the anticipation of his return. May this Advent season bring peace, love, and joy… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – December 24, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Today is the third Sunday of Advent. Advent season is meant to be a time of celebration; celebrating the birth of Christ and the anticipation of his return. May this Advent season bring peace, love, and joy to… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – December 17, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format. -by Kathi Today is the second Sunday of Advent. Advent season is meant to be a time of celebration; celebrating the birth of Christ and the anticipation of his return. May this Advent season bring peace, love, and joy to you.… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – December 10, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Advent season is meant to be a time of celebration; celebrating the birth of Christ and the anticipation of his return. May this Advent season bring peace, love, and joy to… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – December 3, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight From Chapter 12 - What Did Women Do in the Old Testament?: Women in Church Ministries 2 What we learn from Genesis 1-2, then, is that God originally made Adam and Eve… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – November 26, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight From Chapter 12 - What Did Women Do in the Old Testament?: Women in Church Ministries 2 What did women do in the Bible? If we want to be biblical, this question… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – November 19, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight From Chapter 11 - The Bible and Women: Women in Church Ministries 1 McKnight continues Chapter 11 discussing that women in ancient Jewish culture were viewed as inferior. There were the stand… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – November 12, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 11 - The Bible and Women: Women in Church Ministries 1 It's been a while since we have looked at Scott McKnight's book. As a refresher, McKnight's position is that… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – November 5, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format. -by Kathi *** Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 6, "From Paper to Person: How Do We Read God's Words? In this chapter McKnight strengthens his view that the Bible should be read as a story by noting that… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – October 1, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 5, "The Plot of the Wiki-Stories: How Does the Bible Work?" To read the Bible as a story means that there are basic literary elements to the Bible when read… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – September 24, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 4, "It's a Story with Power!: How, Then, Shall We Read?" To introduce the concept of reading the Bible as a story, McKnight tells us about how he used to… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – September 17, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 3, "Inkblots and Puzzles: How, Then, are We Reading?" Last week we looked at two shortcuts to reading the Bible: Morsels of Law and Morsels of Blessing and Promise. Today… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – September 10, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 3, "Inkblots and Puzzles: How, Then, are We Reading?" In this chapter, McKnight states that we need to learn to read the Bible as a story, complete with a beginning… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – September 3, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 2, "The Birds and I" Over the last two Sundays we have talked about reading the Bible through the lens of "reading to retrieve" and "reading through tradition. McKnight sums… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – August 27, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 2, "The Birds and I" Last week we looked at the "reading to retrieve" way of reading the Bible. This week we'll look at "reading through tradition." McKnight discusses the… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – August 20, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 2, "The Birds and I" While there are many ways to approach how to read the Bible, McKnight offers three for us to think about. The first way is "reading… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – August 13, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 2, "The Birds and I" McKnight starts off this chapter by telling a story about a blue parakeet that landed in his back yard. He observed this unusual visitor and… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – August 6, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Discussion: The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight From Chapter 1, "The Book and I"  What I learned was an uncomfortable but incredibly intriguing truth: Every one of us adopts the Bible and (at the same time) adapts the Bible… Continue reading SSB Sunday Gathering – July 30, 2017

Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format.   -by Kathi Sunday mornings are changing a bit at the Gathering. I thought it might be nice to go through a book and see how our discussion goes. I'll continue to add a verse and music. Let's start off with… Continue reading Trying Something New for SSB Gathering – July 23, 2017