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Those Pesky Two-legged Sheep

24-Sep-17 Exodus 16:1-21 From time to time, when my two brothers and I get together, we sometimes re-tell the stories of our growing up. Unfortunately, though, this doesn’t always go all that well. Frequently the story that one of us is telling is vehemently denied by one or both of the other brothers. That, of […]

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Moses Moses Part II

10-Sep-17 Exodus 3:1-15   Just before I left for Monhegan, we spent some time with Moses, yet another one of those reluctant prophets. We discovered that mostly he was just a murderer on the run from the law. He was living in Midian, he got married and had at least one son. He spent 40 […]

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Moses, Moses

27-Aug-17 Exodus 3:1-15 From a human point of view, Moses wasn’t much, and he probably knew it. He didn’t have a whole lot to be proud of in his life. He was mostly just a murderer who had managed to escape from the long arm of the law. But Moses’ story is also an incredible […]