Saint James Messages and Thoughts » integrity http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress Thoughts from our faith community about life Mon, 21 May 2012 15:55:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2010 info@sjumc.net (James Henry) info@sjumc.net (James Henry) 1440 http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Saint James Messages and Thoughts http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress 144 144 Thoughts from our faith community about life James Henry James Henry info@sjumc.net no no 2008 October 5- Integrity http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/10/2008-october-5-integrity/ http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/10/2008-october-5-integrity/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:43:22 +0000 James http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=136 I was not as satisfied with my scripture tie in (Proverbs 4:25-27) this week. It was a good jumping off place and foundation to what the Biblical meaning of integrity is, to make straight, upright, righteousness. I felt I did not build enough on that foundation piece. However, this message was the opportunity to explore what it means to have integrity, to have foundational principles and to then live them out in everyday life. Take a listen to my approach to this fourth sermon in the Character Series.

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I was not as satisfied with my scripture tie in (Proverbs 4:25-27) this week. It was a good jumping off place and foundation to what the Biblical meaning of integrity is, to make straight, upright, righteousness. I felt I did not build enough on that foundation piece. However, this message was the opportunity to explore what it means to have integrity, to have foundational principles and to then live them out in everyday life. Take a listen to my approach to this fourth sermon in the Character Series.

2008 October 5- Integrity

I was not as satisfied with my scripture tie in (Proverbs 4:25-27) this week. It was a good jumping off place and foundation to what the Biblical meaning of integrity is, to make straight, upright, righteousness. I felt I did not build enough on that foundation piece. However, this message was the opportunity to explore what it means to have integrity, to have foundational principles and to then live them out in everyday life. Take a listen to my approach to this fourth sermon in the Character Series.

Messages James Henry no no Integrity: thinking out loud http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/ http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/2008/09/integrity-thinking-out-loud/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:08:04 +0000 James http://sjalexandria.org/wordpress/?p=128 I am working on the next message in our character series on integrity. Without even turning to a dictionary, I think about an opposite, about being dis-integrated. I find with all the many pieces of my life demanding attention that I am anything but integrated as a whole person most of the time. I think that as I reflect on what message I will be bringing this week I keep returning to the biblical image of shalom. We so often translate the word as “peace” but there is more to the word; it is more about wholeness, about being a whole person. Integrity to me is about being a whole person.

Jesus is the shalom-man to me, the one who came to bring wholeness to all of creation and to each one of us. I am still early in my musings about the texts and the character call to integrity. Interested in hearing thoughts and comments on integrity as part of our life of faith…

]]> I am working on the next message in our character series on integrity. Without even turning to a dictionary, I think about an opposite, about being dis-integrated. I find with all the many pieces of my life demanding attention that I am anything but integrated as a whole person most of the time. I think that as I reflect on what message I will be bringing this week I keep returning to the biblical image of shalom. We so often translate the word as “peace” but there is more to the word; it is more about wholeness, about being a whole person. Integrity to me is about being a whole person.

Jesus is the shalom-man to me, the one who came to bring wholeness to all of creation and to each one of us. I am still early in my musings about the texts and the character call to integrity. Interested in hearing thoughts and comments on integrity as part of our life of faith…

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