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Gospels

Sorting Out What’s God’s

22-Oct-17 Matthew 22:15-22 For reasons which I do not fully comprehend, taxes have been a big issue at my house over the last couple of weeks. I strongly suspect that the same is true at Barb’s house. I spent some time this week pondering this, but I didn’t get very far. I don’t comprehend taxes, […]

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He Did Send An Army

15-Oct-17 Matthew 22:1-14 This is not a pretty parable, in fact, I don’t know that any of the parables of Jesus are very pretty. Most of them are absolutely terrifying, and they serve as powerful warnings to all who are brave enough to read them. Our parable this morning starts out innocently enough; a grand […]

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Gospels

I Would Have Sent An Army

08-Oct-17 Matthew 21:33-46 I would have sent an army. From time to time in the Scriptures, we discover that God does not act as prudently and as wisely as we might expect. It often seems as though God is not paying attention to critical details as they develop, and so the decisions and choices that […]

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Torah

Lesson II, Same As The First

01-Oct-17 Exodus 17:1-7 They forgot. Again. And again, it is all Moses’ fault. Moses the murderer is rather persistent, wouldn’t you say? He wasn’t able to kill them all with hunger because God got in the way, and intervened, but maybe, just maybe, he can kill them all with thirst. Dying of thirst is quicker […]