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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 23, 2019
Epiphany + 5 -- Blessed to be a Blessing
Saturday Feb 23, 2019
Saturday Feb 23, 2019
The various scriptures for this Sunday are HERE. The sermon is from the Luke with touches from the Psalm and the (unread) Jeremiah.
I wonder if the title doesn't give the big idea to us: "Blessed to be a Blessing."

Saturday Feb 23, 2019
Epiphany + 4 -- Faithful to the Call
Saturday Feb 23, 2019
Saturday Feb 23, 2019
Faithful to the Call -- Luke 5: 1-11
The text was the Revised Common Lectionary Luke passage. I was trying to balance the idea of faithfulness and call. This was Scout Sunday, so I did get over into our local context a good bit.

Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Epiphany +4 - To Love as God Loves
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
The scripture is 1 Corinthians 12: 31b through the end of 13.
Gift and Fruit of Love. Paul has been driving to this point in his letter and lays out his theology of Love. To love, in a mature way, as God loves.

Saturday Oct 20, 2018
Season of Pentecost - Job 23 -- The Impact of Bad Theology
Saturday Oct 20, 2018
Saturday Oct 20, 2018
Job 23 ... I like Job. Not easy to preach from but I do think it speaks to us in our humanness.

Saturday Oct 20, 2018
United Methodist Women -- Scripture and Sermon
Saturday Oct 20, 2018
Saturday Oct 20, 2018
This is the Reverend Tiffany Eddy in her debut sermon at Hilltop. Tiffany is an Elder in the Oklahoma Conference, and spent five years on active duty in the United States Navy. She now lives in Bluffdale, Utah and is participating in Clinical Pastoral Education at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City.
This was United Methodist Women Sunday. Tiffany spoke to the subject of empowerment! i clipped a smidgen at the end whenTiffany was concluding. Forgive me please.

Monday Oct 01, 2018
Season of Pentecost -- James -- Putting a Bow on James
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
James 5:13-20
Sunday Five of Five Straight RCL Sundays on James
An attempt to put a bow on James and our Culture of Growth Idea ...
13 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. 14 Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. 17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest.
19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another, 20 you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner's soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Season of Pentecost -- James -- Our Words
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Pentecost 16: 18.09.16
Sunday Three of Five Straight RCL Sundays on James
As I indicate in the reflection, the passage was selected in April or May and then the week consumed me with how words had been misused. It just seemed appropriate to take the events of the week and move them into the reflection. My purpose was not to be mean, but to educate and learn. Please try and listen w/o attaching names to the people. An adventure in missing the point.
James 3:1-12
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle. 3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. 4 Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. 7 For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, 8 but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

Monday Sep 03, 2018
Season of Pentecost - James -- Being and Becoming
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Monday Sep 03, 2018
James 1 and his commentary on faith without works is meaningless. True. Context does matter ...

Friday Jun 29, 2018
Season of Pentecost: Ephesians First Rule of Church Leadership
Friday Jun 29, 2018
Friday Jun 29, 2018
Ephesians 1: 3-14
Sermon one of seven from Ephesians. Will introduce a "rule" per week.
This week: "Love your congregation where they are."