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Bringing Our Boats to the Shore, Part 2
When we last met, Jesus had encouraged the disciples to return to open water for some fishing, even though they’d just suffered through a fishless night. So, they begin fishing again, and the nets,...
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Seventeen Shekels for Salvation, Part 1
Just imagine with me that God told one of us that a hurricane or a tornado or a flood like no other was coming. Just imagine with me that God told us where the disaster would hit, what neighborhoods...
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Seventeen Shekels for Salvation, Part 2
Yesterday, we asked why in the world Jeremiah would buy a piece of land he knew was going to be destroyed. Well, let me tell you. You see, there is always a promise in the word of the Lord. There’s...
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Living on the Front Lines
Several years ago, my wife Clélie worked with her youth group to make care packages for soldiers. She gathered the information about a particular unit – their wants and needs, what could and could not...
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Living on the Front Lines, Part 2
“Sometime ago there was a wonderful teacher who celebrated her eightieth birthday. It proved to be a marvelous occasion, highlighted by the presence of a great number of her former students....
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Living on the Front Lines, Part 3
I once read a story about an older man, Bud, and his wife, Millie, who lived out in a rural area, and they didn’t make it into town very often. One day his wife obtained a copy of a ladies’ magazine...
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Living on the Front Lines, Part 4
Pastor King Duncan relates a silly and sort of scandalous incident with an early church father: “When the father of Origen, a third century theologian, was arrested for being a Christian, Origen, then...
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The Ten Minute Mulligan
It’s Ash Wednesday, and today, we enter into a period of preparing, reflecting, and sacrificing known as Lent. Typically, folks try to fast from something, e.g. meat, sodas, chocolate, TV, or even...
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Be Kind, Be Kind, Be Kind
Henry James famously instructed his nephew Willie in 1902, “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” Many days our...
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When the Olympics are On…
Puttering slowly through the back end of my run on Thursday last week, I passed an older gentleman who works yards in our neighborhood. He stopped weed-eating, looked at me as I passed him, and he told...
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