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Gospels

One With, One Not

13-Mar-16 John 12:1-8 One of the things that we quickly learn when we study the Gospels, and when we focus on the lives of Jesus’ disciples, is that quite frequently, not all of them get it. Sometimes it seems like that in spite of all of the time that they have spent with Jesus traveling […]

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Epistles

We’re More Than That, Because…

06-Mar-16 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Bring up the name of Jesus any place but in a church and you’re apt to hear a variety of opinions about the man. You might hear, “Oh, he never existed. He is merely the figment of some well-meaning but over-active imaginations”. Or you might hear something a little more charitable […]

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Epistles

Living by Faith, Not by Wits

28-Feb-16 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 The escape from Egypt, or the Exodus from Egypt, tends to be a common theme that shows up in the Scripture passages that we focus on during Lent. And that’s because as we move toward Easter and the triumphant salvation event that we celebrate at Easter, it does us some good, […]