Michael Rinehart

This week I sat down with the new (six months) President of Texas Lutheran University, Dr. Stuart Dorsey. This twenty-minute podcast will tell you how things are going.

Listen to the podcast at http://bishopmike.libsyn.com/rss

For iPhone and iPod users, podcast will eventually be posted here as well: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bishop-mike-rineharts-podcast/id444755686

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/health/switzerland-gates-donation/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Houstonites: I’m doing a series of lectures February 10-12, for any interested, on the topic, “Speaking Love’s Name: A Theology of Compassion.” The lectures will be at Salem Lutheran Church. Please feel free to invite your folks if you think there would be interest.

My thesis is that love is at the center of the theology of the Bible. It starts in the Shemah, Deuteronomy 6:4-5. Jesus picks it up when asked for the greatest commandment. Paul picks it up in 1 Corinthians 13. John picks it up in phrases like, “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8)

This love, however, is not sentiment. Beginning with the law and prophets, love of neighbor has a very specific content that is presented in the law, hammered in the prophets, and lived out in Jesus life and ministry.

Friday, February 10, 2012

7:15 p.m. – Gathering and Registration

7:30-9:00 - Session 1: Compassion in the Law and Prophets

Saturday, February 11, 2012

8:45 a.m. – Gathering;

9:00-1:00 – Session 2: Compassion in the Gospels (includes lunch)

Sunday, February 12, 2012

8:00 – Worship and Sermon

9:00 a.m. – Breakfast

9:30 a.m. – Session 3: Compassion in the Epistles

11:00 a.m. Worship and Sermon

The program is free, but please RSVP to the Church Office (office).

The quote was from the biography of Howard Thurman.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z5_07RsCWWsC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=black+girls+on+a+swing+this+is+how+important+you+are.&source=bl&ots=ACeNcnItjm&sig=ArQo7ToNAcsjiMZIPtscObYJhUo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1jogT5z7MYWtiQKm39HPCw&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA

Extract from ‘The Answer’

“…There have been times when,
After long on my knees in a cold chancel,
A stone has rolled from my mind,
And I have looked in and seen the old questions
lie folded and in place by themselves,
Like the piledgraveclothes of love’s risen body…”

(As quoted by Barabara Lundblad at the TX-LA TriSynodical Theological Conference)

http://www.acacamps.org/campmag/1111/why-world-needs-summer-camp