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Dr. Will Post
Yesterday was one of solemn remembrance of the attack on our country destroying the World Trade Center. The images of the tragedy are with everyone to this day. It changed us in so many ways. Sally and I were living in New York in our small apartment on Sixty-Ninth Street on the upper west side. The aftermath changed us all and we still feel the tensions today. The suspicion and antipathy for the Muslim nation and its people remains among many Americans. I had just recently finished my latest degrees at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. I was newly…
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AUGUST 30, 2026 – FIRST SUNDAY AT BISTRO ATRIUM
This coming Sunday, August 30, marks yet another new chapter in the journey of The Gathering Ministry. We started at University Church until the building was sold to Purdue. We were invited and moved to First Baptist Church in Lafayette where we struggled to share the space. When that didn’t last, we went to Happy Hollow School in West Lafayette for several months. But the school district needed that space, so we moved again. We were then welcomed to Carnahan Hall in Lafayette, (soon to become the new BMV), which was large and delightful. But after it closed, we were…
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WE’RE MOVING TO THE BISTRO ATRIUM
There is a big change coming for The Gathering, and it came with surprise and unexpected speed! We received notice about two weeks ago that the Tippecanoe County Historical Association will no longer be available to us as of the beginning of September. In the meantime, our friend Mary Buckley, owner of Bistro 501, has offered us the use of the Bistro Atrium at the Lahr Hotel. This is the space that she used as a market for a couple of years and then closed. We are blessed with her generosity, and she’s being very helpful in working out the…
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Coming Soon: Our New Location
Greetings to The Gathering family, By now, you may have heard that after several years of challenges with our landlord, those issues came to a head this past week. We were informed that we will be leaving the Tippecanoe County Historical Association (TCHA) within the next month. While this news was disappointing, it wasn’t entirely unexpected. Over the years, we’ve known that TCHA was not an ideal long-term home for The Gathering. In fact, for the better part of a year, we’ve been actively searching for another location. As many of you know, finding a space that fits our unique…
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What Brings Change and Peace?
Last Sunday, I acknowledged the unsettling state of the country. I asked for a show of hands: who has stopped watching the news because of the stress it brings? Not surprisingly, several hands were raised. It is upsetting when we think about the fragile state of the United States government. Corruption and greed are at all-time highs. The economy for average Americans is bad and seems to be getting worse. People are distressed about the state of the politics and leadership. We are so deeply divided. And it’s not general disagreement of opinion. It is holding our views expressed with…
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Belong, Behave, Believe
The Sequence of Church Growth Christian Theologian Diana Butler Bass’ book: ‘‘Christianity Before Religion” really impacted me. It is an penetrating look at the history of the early Christian Church. She observed that the original draw for the first crowds who gathered listening to this itinerant Jewish preacher and healer was curiosity and amazement. His was a unique and compelling voice arguing for a new understanding of God and religion. Jesus was galvanizing, persuasive and spoke with an authority that penetrated the Jewish crowds. His evident powers to heal the sick and disabled deepened their fascination. This is all originally…
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Romans 12
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…” The apostle Paul is the great teacher of Christianity. More than any other individual who came to believe in Jesus, Paul had the capacity, the insight, and the depth of understanding to fully articulate how radical and eternal the event and the experience of Jesus was then and continues to be for us now. What is known about Paul, of course, is that he was a leading intellectual in the Jerusalem Temple community. He was an erudite member of the Sanhedrin and knew the…
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Mercy and the Unforgiving Servant
Going forward, I am going to offer a weekly blog post on our new website. It will be centered around the scripture for our Sunday Gathering. This week we share a parable from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 18:21-35) where Jesus calls his followers to show compassion and mercy. It’s the story of a king who wants to settle accounts with his servants. And he confronts one of them who owes him a great deal of money. But since he was not able to pay, the master, following the justice of the day, ordered that he and his wife and his children…
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A Thanksgiving Message
Preparing for Thanksgiving When approaching the Scripture, we always ask two questions: What did it mean then and what does it mean now? This past Sunday we took a break from our reading of Paul’s Letter to the Romans. We read from his letter in Ephesians Chapter 4. But the theme here carries forward his blunt instructions for living a life according to the Gospel of Jesus. He calls out to all in his hearing reminding them of the fundamental values and instructions for living a life faithful to Jesus. He contrasts new life in Jesus to the wider popular…
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A Reflection on Romans 8
When approaching the Scripture ask two questions: What did it mean then and what does it mean now? I am grateful for the content of yesterday’s scripture at The Gathering. We continued with Paul’s message in Romans 8 emphasizing our freedom from the law. The essence of the teaching is that we become perpetually distracted trying to follow the law and the activities that demand our constant attention. We lose focus on what matters, which is faith! It was a challenge for the people in Rome at the time and remains a central issue for us today. And I decided…
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