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Hard, Hard Peace

The following is only an excerpt of this sermon. The full sermon can be heard by clicking the audio link below. Hebrews 11.29-12.2; Luke 12.49-56 There is an image that I sometimes like to share with couples as they come to me in pre-marital counseling. We talk about how we, as human beings, when we [Read full post]
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Getting Our Insides Moving

Luke 11.1-13 The focus of this morning’s text and message is prayer. And as I reflected on prayer I quite naturally thought about…caterpillars. There was a story on NPR this past week about a researcher who was studying how caterpillars move. “Caterpillars don’t have a bone in their body. They move by squeezing muscles in [Read full post]
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Doubters and Leapers

The following is only an excerpt of this sermon. The full sermon can be heard by clicking the audio link below. John 20.19-31 Does anybody want to go to Hawaii? Well, I’d like to take you, as Barney might say, in our imagination to the north shore of the island of Oahu. There is a [Read full post]
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That Gospel Crazy Law

The following is only an excerpt of this sermon. The full sermon can be heard by clicking the audio link below. Luke 10.25-37 I’m going to go out on a limb here… have any of you heard of this thing called the ‘Internet’? Yes, you use the internet? Wonderful tool, isn’t it? One of the [Read full post]
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Angels For A Moment In Time

The following is only an excerpt of this sermon. The full sermon can be heard by clicking the audio link below. 1 Kings 19.1-15a These stories from the Old Testament, they’re great stuff. Amen? Nice, juicy, just full of stuff for us to chew on. There’s this great image, just before our story: There has [Read full post]
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