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Part of the Flock – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. Part of the Flock. Christ the King Sunday. November 22, 2015. Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24. The first time I saw a pasture of sheep, I was driving through Yadkin County, North Carolina. There, in the rolling hills of that part of my home state, I spotted sheep dotting the green landscape of someone’s pasture. They made me smile. Why do sheep make us smile? They made me laugh out loud.
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September 2016 – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. September 11, 2016/Luke 15:1-10 He welcomed sinners and ate with them. The Pharisees could not begin to understand why Jesus would do such a thing. These experts in God’s law, these ones who followed every jot and tittle, who immersed themselves in God’s word, who worked so hard to be righteous, to prove they were… Read More Rejoice! September 12, 2016. The Cost of Discipleship.
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December 2016 – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. Christmas 2016/Luke 2:1-20 I can say now, that when Gabriel appeared to me and told me all that God had in store for me, I did not really understand what it all meant. Maybe my lack of understanding is why it was easier for me, then, to turn myself over to God, to declare my… Read More Mary’s Song. December 27, 2016. All the Names of Jesus. December 27, 2016. What was he about?
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February 2016 – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. A Lenten Meditation on Psalm 139 child, mother, sister, friend, wife, confidante, gardener, consoler, weeper of tears, laugher of joys who of these knows me? Who of these sees me as I really am? Sees to the heart of me, when sometimes I can’t see myself? Child who gives freely, who trusts unhesitatingly, who… Read More Who Am I? February 18, 2016. If You Really Are …. Transfigurat...
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July 2016 – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. Bread for the Day. July 24, 2016/Luke 11:1-13 We are so confused, perplexed, and uncertain about prayer. Just take a look at the number of books about prayer that Amazon offers for sale more than one thousand currently available. One thousand different voices telling us what prayer is all about and how to do it. On my own… Read More Bread for the Day. July 25, 2016. July 18, 2016.
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Get Out of Town! – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. Get Out of Town! Vespers for Third Week of Advent/December 14, 2016. Zechariah 8:1-17; Matthew 8:14-17, 28-34. Is that any way to treat someone who does you a favor? You have to think that the town was pleased to no longer have to sneak past the tombs as they came and went on their journeys. Who would want to walk past two crazy people yelling and frothing at the mouth? But when t...
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Name Him … – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. Name Him …. Fourth Sunday of Advent/December 18, 2016. Isaiah 7:10-16; Matthew 1:18-25. In the end, I prevailed, and while that particular baby was a girl, the baby boy that we had three years later who now has five children of his own was named Christopher George. Joseph was not really thinking about baby names when God spoke to him in his dreams. What he was thinking about w...
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October 2016 – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. October 23, 2016/Luke 18:9-14 When we read the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, we automatically place ourselves on the side of the tax collector. We look at the Pharisee, and we shake our heads. Look at his piety, we think, his focus on himself and what he has done right and… Read More Praying Sideways. October 31, 2016. October 19, 2016. October 3, 2016.
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January 2016 – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. Epiphany 2016 Matthew 2:1-12 What if you had never heard the Christmas story? What if you heard the story for the first time? A story about God being born as a baby to a poor young virgin girl, being wrapped in strips of cloth and laid in a feed trough. What would you think of… Read More Seeking. January 19, 2016. January 10, 2016. On Name Him …. 17jean on Part of the Flock.
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August 2016 – asecondcalling
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Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Stepping Behind the Pulpit. Thoughts from a later-in-life pastor on faith and the Christian life. August 28, 2016/Jeremiah 2:4-13 Both of my parents grew up in large families in farm country in eastern North Carolina. Mama had eight brothers and sisters, Daddy six, and they had stories to tell about most of them. Daddy told of taking the pony cart out into the middle of the watermelon patch one time… Read More Telling the Story. August 29, 2016. More than Just a Job. August 7,...