tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.comments2023-09-16T11:26:37.301-04:00MarginaliaAlex Joynerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15340042492485801726noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-56837758669672269102012-08-23T10:37:28.912-04:002012-08-23T10:37:28.912-04:00Hi, Alex! I found your blog and thought I'd sa...Hi, Alex! I found your blog and thought I'd say, "hi". Great sermon with eclectic illustrations. Personally, I would MUCH prefer to have dinner with Martin Luther or Susanna Wesley, but that's just me. (:Patti Moneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427931620713207756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-48237471266987103952011-07-17T00:07:03.908-04:002011-07-17T00:07:03.908-04:00Looked on FB, and in the Narthex. Knew I'd fi...Looked on FB, and in the Narthex. Knew I'd finally find your last sermon here! <br /><br />I said to the almond tree, <br />'Sister, speak to me of God.' <br />And the almond tree blossomed. <br /> Nikos Kazantzakis <br />Blessings, friend.Karen Hatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04989633499516606158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-63726659526677608062010-12-26T10:44:01.105-05:002010-12-26T10:44:01.105-05:00Hello My Brother
I love this, you've captured ...Hello My Brother<br />I love this, you've captured the thrill of God's heart and made it tangible to my comprehension. Thank you for the warmth and yet deeply moving rebuke within Isaiah 58 at the end, because praise must do this to us in the Christian Church once again. It must cause us to connect at a level that changes what we do with our gifts and our blessings. Again well done, pastor.<br />Pastor Ron Bateman www.revivalhut.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06161348984826977225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-12385067243784046452010-12-19T09:27:38.568-05:002010-12-19T09:27:38.568-05:00Thank you, Alex! Hope you and your family are havi...Thank you, Alex! Hope you and your family are having a wonderful season of Advent!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-2699479694369206462010-10-31T14:54:09.357-04:002010-10-31T14:54:09.357-04:00Thanks for this, Alex!Thanks for this, Alex!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-80247911587130229232010-04-28T19:59:42.592-04:002010-04-28T19:59:42.592-04:00Very well said. I am so glad to see an open mind o...Very well said. I am so glad to see an open mind on this coming from a Christian perspective.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345166525780080261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-36057302331666534412010-04-27T18:02:30.317-04:002010-04-27T18:02:30.317-04:00Thank you for this sermon. I have been having a ma...Thank you for this sermon. I have been having a major internal conflict about this. Particularly because so many people believe that intelligence and faith in God are mutually exclusive.Carleenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-11606122173119548802010-04-25T18:06:30.247-04:002010-04-25T18:06:30.247-04:00Thanks so much for sharing this, Alex - this is a ...Thanks so much for sharing this, Alex - this is a subject I've been thinking about lately!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-39476069217251798362010-01-11T22:24:45.659-05:002010-01-11T22:24:45.659-05:00Thank YOU, Laura. I'm very glad to have stumb...Thank YOU, Laura. I'm very glad to have stumbled across your blog.Alex Joynerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15340042492485801726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-24867363528066739962010-01-10T17:45:59.976-05:002010-01-10T17:45:59.976-05:00This is beautiful! I hardly know what to say but &...This is beautiful! I hardly know what to say but "Thank you!" I'm so honored to have written something that could be used in such a powerful manner. Thank you and God Bless!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-70334012997126696782010-01-06T08:07:03.421-05:002010-01-06T08:07:03.421-05:00This is so beautiful, helpful and challenging. Th...This is so beautiful, helpful and challenging. Thank you. And thanks for stopping by my site. I am grateful.RJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13545420303456278246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-1681196853096862582009-12-13T23:25:12.784-05:002009-12-13T23:25:12.784-05:00I love the image from "One Flight Down" ...I love the image from "One Flight Down" as a description for rejoicing. Thank you!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-1373970823145731902009-11-29T13:55:17.226-05:002009-11-29T13:55:17.226-05:00Thank you, Alex. I love that word "inscape&qu...Thank you, Alex. I love that word "inscape"! :)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-43232170111165391862009-11-14T00:06:01.525-05:002009-11-14T00:06:01.525-05:00Thank you, Mr. Wright, for offering your words and...Thank you, Mr. Wright, for offering your words and your life as a lens through which new light can shine. I am grateful for you. AlexAlex Joynerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15340042492485801726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-50790308819941722632009-11-13T06:36:54.433-05:002009-11-13T06:36:54.433-05:00Thank you, Alex, for including me in this very bea...Thank you, Alex, for including me in this very beautiful meditation and sermon, I feel very honored. FWrightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-35988259050586325662009-11-04T16:18:54.055-05:002009-11-04T16:18:54.055-05:00sniffle sniffle still wiping my eyes. THanks Alex....sniffle sniffle still wiping my eyes. THanks Alex. - JulieAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04683906137549253961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-55905176597932302952009-09-20T15:32:08.027-04:002009-09-20T15:32:08.027-04:00Thank you so much for this message, Alex. Plus, I ...Thank you so much for this message, Alex. Plus, I love the story of the Sneetches!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-542888516010703942009-07-19T23:56:30.097-04:002009-07-19T23:56:30.097-04:00Praying for you and your family as you prepare for...Praying for you and your family as you prepare for your trip! Thank you for the message.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-29069153128914761172009-07-11T22:03:41.393-04:002009-07-11T22:03:41.393-04:00Hey, Alex! I love your description of rapture and ...Hey, Alex! I love your description of rapture and how those glimpses of truth let us experience it. Thanks so much. Also, it sounds like you had a great Fourth! :) Thinking of you and hoping you're doing great!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-54686905061438523532009-02-03T22:34:00.000-05:002009-02-03T22:34:00.000-05:00Alex--it is always good to *hear* you preach on he...Alex--it is always good to *hear* you preach on here. Thank you for who you are and how you let God's word shine through!Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375194413059621466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-11950633349462337052009-01-26T19:31:00.000-05:002009-01-26T19:31:00.000-05:00ALEX: Your sermon on marriage is fantastic. Very e...ALEX: Your sermon on marriage is fantastic. Very enlightening. DadAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13096756263558019605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-55220586859230699882008-06-29T19:18:00.000-04:002008-06-29T19:18:00.000-04:00Now let me take a step beyond my initial and chara...Now let me take a step beyond my initial and characteristically vain reaction to your story and sermon, and propose that in our experience (which Yeats so magnificently wrote about as an older man, his experience of still be driven, even tormented by his same youthful passions though now finding himself "fastened to a dying animal")--that in this frustrating and lonely and frightening ordeal we were to perceive it as something different, something not to grieve about but to rejoice in--a physcial, lived illustration of the soul's true nature, which is its immortality, its changelessness and agelessness. This also leads to other issues regarding the nature of the life of the soul, which are far from being so black and white, but still: what if we could experience this aging dilemma and ordeal as proof of something marvelous and infinitely reassuring?<BR/>FranzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-89540569825687722462008-06-29T18:43:00.000-04:002008-06-29T18:43:00.000-04:00I am speechlessly grateful for your words--it is n...I am speechlessly grateful for your words--it is not too much to say that (as a writer) this is what I live for: those exceedingly rare, even miraculous instances of contact with someone outside the literary world (at least this is true for poets), of feeling someone has understood you, understood that what you are engaged in is anything but a literary matter--that it is simply your work, the glove with which yo touch the universe, as well as your spiritual quest and your physical sustenance. Peace to you, FWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-6566764539893154792008-05-26T00:57:00.000-04:002008-05-26T00:57:00.000-04:00Hi, Alex! I am catching up on your writings. Did y...Hi, Alex! I am catching up on your writings. Did you know that Mary Karr is now the chosen contributor for the "Poet's Choice" column in The Washington Post's Book World? I have never read her work, but really want to now!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622101328352321769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14472652.post-80232671560953699342008-04-27T02:17:00.000-04:002008-04-27T02:17:00.000-04:00'The resurrection language turned off some of the ...'The resurrection language turned off some of the philosophers....'<BR/><BR/>Doubtless Paul told them that Jesus became a life-giving spirit.<BR/><BR/>And reminded them of the destruction of the body 'Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.'<BR/><BR/>The scoffers were presumably the people who converted to Christianity.<BR/><BR/>Paul writes to converts to Christianity in Corinth who scoffed at the whole idea of God choosing to raise corpses. (But how could Christians scoff at the idea of God choosing to raise corpses, if Acts 17 is remotely historical?)<BR/><BR/>Even when trying to describe a resurrected body, Paul cannot find one detail of any Gospel story of Jesus eating, being touched, or declaring that he had flesh and bones.<BR/><BR/>How could he? Those stories had not been invented at the time Paul was writing.Steven Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983601793874190779noreply@blogger.com