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Fryer Drew's Sermons: April 2013
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Monday, April 29, 2013. Let No One Call Profane. I think I have said before that this part of Acts is my favorite part of scripture. Some may also know that I went to seminary in the South. The practice of Christianity in the South is a little bit different than it is in NEPA. Folks want to know your conversion story. They will buy you a cup of coffee and ask you about how you came to Christ. They’ll ask you what your favorite scriptures are. This are different up here. He needed to share why. In that vi...
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: Setting Your Face Toward Jerusalem
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Thursday, July 04, 2013. Setting Your Face Toward Jerusalem. Preached June 30 in Dunmore and Throop UMCs. Jesus set his face for Jerusalem. That means more than he pulled out a map and traced his route, marking all the Stuckey’s restaurants where he could pick up nut rolls and Bolsa blankets. It meant more than he called AAA and ordered up a custom triptych. He set his face toward Jerusalem. He knew that the time had come for the climax of his ministry. In a nutshell, here’s why:. It would be as if someo...
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: Tree Stumps and Tombstones
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Tree Stumps and Tombstones. Preached July 14 in the Throop and Dunmore UMC's. He’s presenting his bona fides to the Roman Christians. So the first part of this letter is a very basic understanding of the Christian faith, one that he builds on later, but is simple here. Which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,. The gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh. Until you get to verse 5, where he states that gentile...
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: The Faith Available to Us
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Thursday, July 04, 2013. The Faith Available to Us. Preached June 2 in the Throop and Dunmore churches. There are a few things that we need to make clear, that aren’t immediately clear. I am no Greek scholar, but a number of different commentators note that the word used as “servant” in our translation is generally more clearly understood as “slave”. So the Centurion is concerned about someone he owns, rather than someone works in exchange for wages. This particular Centurion was particularly respected b...
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: August 2012
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Thursday, August 30, 2012. It’s really too bad that the local Christian bookstore closed last month. Besides all of the supplies that could be obtained there; besides all of the Bible covers, and the wall hangings, and the Cd’s of music and the DVD’s, they had a toy section! I loved going into that section, and seeing the Veggie Tales Noah’s Ark, or their Nativity scene (which I still kinda want). For me though, the best image that comes to mind, as a substitute for warlike imagery, are football uniforms...
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: January 2013
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Saturday, January 05, 2013. December 30, 2012. That person right over there! That’s who I am better than! That’s who I can safely feel above! Anyone ever heard that one before? None of the three of them did. Surprise. None were what you’d call pillars of virtue, and the one whom she thought was the safest, the one with standing in the community and economic resources, turned out to be the most controlling, even to the point of influencing her doctors without her knowledge. We are never less than as God s...
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: September 2012
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Friday, September 21, 2012. Raise your hand when you recognize the song:. Now I know that I had to borrow, beg and steal and lie and cheat, Trying to keep you, trying to please you, ‘Cause being in love with your face ain’t cheap. Now I pity the fool that falls in love with you, well, I’ve got some news for you; Oh, I really hate you right now. This is a pop song by an artist named Cee Lo Green; if you watch TV talent competitions, he’s the African American guy with the bright glasses, on The Voice.
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: Like A Hen
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013. Preached May 12, 2013, at Throop and Dunmore UMC's. 65279;. On my Facebook page the week before Mothers’ Day, I asked this question:. So, what is Mothers Day for you? As a child, do you see it is a blessing or a duty? If you are a mother, do you expect a certain kind of observance, and are you disappointed if it doesn't go as you expect? It was a large and varied response. There is something within us that is being spoken to. There is something there. But then he says that all h...
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Fryer Drew's Sermons: February 2013
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Friday, February 22, 2013. Who Did It For You? These sermons of Lent are inspired by the chapters of the book “24 Hours that Changed the World”, by Rev. Adam Hamilton. The meal that Jesus gathers with his friends for in this story is the Passover dinner, a ritualistic meal in the Jewish faith that remembers the Exodus, or the story of their deliverance, as a people, from slavery in Egypt. The order of ritual is called a Haggadah, and there are many variations in the modern world. Last night, at dinner at...
