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saying graces: "Busy" - Luke 10:38-42
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Monday, November 8, 2010. Busy" - Luke 10:38-42. Sermon on November 7, 2010. Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”. I want to talk about being busy this morning. Are you busy? Have you been busy lately? Is that a good thing in your mind? We like being thought of as busy people. As a pastor, one thing I know for sure is th...
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saying graces: "A Private Conversation" - Luke 19:1-10
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Monday, November 1, 2010. A Private Conversation" - Luke 19:1-10. Sermon on Sunday, October 31, 2010. Jericho. Our story from Luke’s gospel takes place in the city of Jericho. But before we get to Zacchaeus climbing a tree to see Jesus, you should know something about Jericho. You see, in New Testament times, there were just two major highways in all of Israel, and one of them ran right through Jericho. This alone made Jericho a strategic city at the time, but there’s more. There’s a fee for that. Someon...
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saying graces: "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen."
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Monday, October 25, 2010. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.". Sermon on Sunday, October 24, 2010. God doesn’t belong to us. We belong to God. That’s the sermon today, really, and I could stop there. God doesn’t belong to us. We belong to God. That would be an amazingly short sermon, though, wouldn’t it? So I suppose I’ll elaborate for at least a few more minutes…. That notion of a God who’s got the whole ...
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saying graces: December 2010
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Monday, December 13, 2010. Into the Wild" - Matthew 3:1-12. Sermon on Sunday, December 5, 2010. In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”. Prepare the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight! Were they out in the wilderness to keep an eye on him?
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saying graces: Evotional - A Thermostat that Transforms
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Thursday, January 20, 2011. Evotional - A Thermostat that Transforms. A Thermostat that Transforms. Still fresh in my mind is this past Sunday's wonderful worship service, when we invited Rev. Randy Bush back into the pulpit. Being Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, Randy reflected on Dr. King's life, among other things. Our affirmation of faith that followed was a piece that I wrote based on King's 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Here's a bit of it:. What, then, shall we do? Those words continue to r...
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saying graces: November 2010
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Monday, November 29, 2010. Best Wishes" - Isaiah 2:1-5. Sermon on the first Sunday of Advent, November 28, 2010. He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.". The Judeans couldn’t use sickles and plowshares to fight the Assyrians, but in a week or so, they could exchange them for tools of war. And t...This is...
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saying graces: "Upside Down Kingdom" - Luke 23:33-43
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Monday, November 22, 2010. Upside Down Kingdom" - Luke 23:33-43. Sermon on Sunday, November 21, 2010. There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”. Reading near the end of the gospel of Luke can feel like visiting a museum for the fiftieth time. We’ve seen it before—walked by this particular display on countless occasions. It’s the gruesome scene—Jesus’ final moments. An ancient Roman urn? One of Van Gogh’s finest? Save yourself and us! 8221; Or was he one of those who had been...
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saying graces: Evotional - "If Jesus was born today"
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Thursday, December 2, 2010. Evotional - "If Jesus was born today". I've been thinking lately about Advent and Christmas, of course, and I've been struck again this year by the overcommercialization of it all. So here's a Steve Turner poem for this week's evotional. In many of his poems, Turner has a knack for exposing the gulf that often exists between the gospel message and a comfortable, institutionalized religion. May his words find a place in your thinking and believing today! If Jesus was born today".
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saying graces: "Into the Wild" - Matthew 3:1-12
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Monday, December 13, 2010. Into the Wild" - Matthew 3:1-12. Sermon on Sunday, December 5, 2010. In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”. Prepare the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight! Were they out in the wilderness to keep an eye on him?
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saying graces: "Best Wishes" - Isaiah 2:1-5
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Monday, November 29, 2010. Best Wishes" - Isaiah 2:1-5. Sermon on the first Sunday of Advent, November 28, 2010. He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.". The Judeans couldn’t use sickles and plowshares to fight the Assyrians, but in a week or so, they could exchange them for tools of war. And t...This is...