All posts by: Ron Clark

Every year Lori and I stand before Agape and read this “Ethical Conduct” agreement with our church. Our church planting organization, Kairos Church Planting, has encouraged ministers/leaders to do this each year. We continue to support our existing leaders, interns, and others in leadership to take this similar covenant before their people. Covenants are important–they remind […]

Photo Taken from The Facebook Page Karl Barth for Dummies. I took a nine-year break from refereeing wrestling. I had worked with high school and youth wrestling for seven years before moving to Portland and officiating for ten years. Because all three boys had busy schedules, I took a break. Now seemed like a good […]

I have a Gillette razor. I intend to keep it and purchase more in the future. I like my razor and now I like the company even more. I also intend to keep my Nike shoes, but that’s another post. I am having difficulty understanding the problem with the backlash to the recent Gillette commercial […]

Presence: The Promised Presence Today we begin our Advent Conspiracy. As I mentioned during communion, we are encouraging everyone to give “one gift less” and offer the money we save as a collection that will go to help others. %75 will go to Living Water International and %25 will be given to the Gateway Domestic […]

Resistance: Jesus’ Call to the Church Conversion, Transformation, and Salvation as Resistance Good morning—thank you for the prayers. As you probably know, the surgery went well and my little tumor unwillingly left my body Monday morning. I don’t think it wanted to leave to easily, but it is gone and my doctors prevailed. These last […]

In early September, 1983, an Engineering student at the University of Missouri decided to invite 100 people, in his dormitory, to a Bible study. It was 35 years ago when he began knocking 100 doors that evening. The last door he came to at the end of the hall on the first floor was mine. […]

Resistance—Jesus’ Call to the Church Proclaiming Resistance to Abuse and Oppression To Hear This Sermon  Click Here Good morning everyone. Today is the day that we traditionally hold a special worship service to address a current evil in our world and the church today—Intimate Partner Violence, also known as IPV. Lori and I have been […]

Resistance: Jesus’ Call for the Church Communion as Resistance September 30 As we continue this series on resistance, we have discussed that the early Christians were called by Jesus to “resist” the dominant Empire of their land. Jesus lived during the days of occupied Palestine, meaning that Rome ruled the area and placed the people […]

Resistance: Jesus’ Call to the Church Worship Jesus as Resistance September 16 Last week we began our series concerning the calling of Christians/the church, to be a form of resistance in their world. We began the series by sharing that “Jesus is Lord…” was comparable to stating “Jesus is Caesar.” The terms used of Caesar […]

Resistance: The Call of the Church Jesus is Caesar: Called to Resist September 9 : Click to Listen to Sermon Today we begin our series discussing the early church as a community of resistance. When we think of resistance, we might find that people have different perspectives on the meaning of this word. If you […]