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Dennis Shaw is a musician, marathoner (Boston!), retired military officer, math modeler, muse, and United Methodist Pastor. A keen observer of the human condition, he has degrees in music, quantitative methods (don’t ask!), theology and leadership. He will discuss with other leaders how to become engaged and present in our current leadership opportunities. Critical to leadership is strong self-awareness. Becoming authentic, empathetic, and aware will form the framework of all discussions. You can access and follow this podcast on Apple, Podbean, Spotify and Amazon Music.
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Thursday May 18, 2023
Episode 2 -- An Interview with Bruce Berger
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
Bruce Berger is the current President of the Council on Finance and Administration for the Mountain Sky Conference.
He has served both legacy Rocky Mountain and the new Mountain Sky Conferences. Bruce worships at Park Hill UMC in Denver.
If you have any thoughts you wish to share, do not hesitate to send me a note at dennis at mantuan dot org and I will try to answer it as quickly as practicable.
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Podcast host Dennis Shaw is a musician, marathoner (Boston!), retired military officer, math modeler, and United Methodist Pastor. A keen observer of the human condition, he has degrees in music, quantitative methods (don’t ask!), theology and leadership. He will discuss with other leaders how to become engaged and present in our current leadership opportunities. Critical to leadership is strong self-awareness. Becoming authentic, empathetic, and aware will form the framework of all discussions.

Saturday Feb 02, 2019
Epiphany -- Listening Generously
Saturday Feb 02, 2019
Saturday Feb 02, 2019
Ephesians 3: 1-13
Liturgical material for the service developed by Kerry Greenhill, Sacred Stones.
1 Kings -- God Speaks in a Small Still Voice, and Galatians 5 -- fruits of the Spirit. Today the fruit is generosity.

Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Enough -- Amy Gearhart Rocks It at Hilltop
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Luke 12: 22 to 34. The text is from The Message. (We had flowers for Eugene Peterson.) Her sermon title is Enough.
Amy Gearhart is an Elder in the Missouri Conference and we had her speak at Hilltop on Commitment Sunday. AKA Consecration Sunday. Amy explains her new position at the Mountain Sky Conference. I called her the Transition and Culture Czarina.
This was our most effective Stewardship campaign in my time at Hilltop, at least in terms of Treasure. Still work to do in all three of time, talent, and treasure but we are making progress.
I spoke a little at the start to make some comments on the shootings at the Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Season of Pentecost - James -- Are you "All In"? Why Not?
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Pentecost 17: 18.09.23
James 3:13 - 4:8a
Pastor Dennis “Big Idea”:
I decided to take to the area of which wolf will you feed? Which wisdom will you honor? Played with the idea of what it means to be "all in". Sometimes it means you are exhausted or tired. But other times, it means, I am totally with this. I am "all" in. No guilt. No shame. But at the same time, where are you?
Revealed this service my financial contribution to the church. Not for guilt, or shame, but to show Marilyn and I are all in.
Sunday Four of Five Straight RCL Sundays on James
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish. 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.
4:1 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 2 You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures….
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8a Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
Christmas Eve, 2017
Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
Tuesday Dec 26, 2017
This is my Christmas Eve reflection. Bonhoeffer meets Ebenezer Scrooge with a little help from other sources.

Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Pastor Mario -- last Sunday in October, 2017
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
The Reverend Mario Alejandre returning to Hilltop to close out our Stewardship Campaign for 2017. Mario is a Lutheran who sounds like a Methodist. Gifted. Truly.

Monday Oct 02, 2017
Stewardship Reflection #1
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Setting the stage for the Stewardship time -- Ministry Moments -- for the Fall.

Monday Oct 02, 2017
Narrative Lectionary -- God Provides in the Wilderness
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Exodus 16: 1-25 -- a quick trip in the wilderness focusing on needs and how God provides. Points toward John 6 -- Jesus as the Bread of Life. The Children of Israel sit in the wilderness between already and not-yet, slavery and freedom. God will provide ...

Thursday Sep 28, 2017
Narrative Lectionary -- Called by God
Thursday Sep 28, 2017
Thursday Sep 28, 2017
Exodus 3 -- Moses is called, and he balks. I treated this as "Good News, Bad News" but being called by God is actually good news, because God will be with us on this journey.
From minute 1 to minute 6 is a Ministry Moment on how we are going to do Stewardship this Fall. Heart talk!

Saturday May 27, 2017
Mother's Day -- 2017 -- Acts 15 -- Who Gets Nurtured?
Saturday May 27, 2017
Saturday May 27, 2017
That minefield that is Mother's Day. Relationships gone bad, or lost, or never was. All of those emotions and more. I focused on nurture.