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Grace for Me, But Not For You

24-Jan-21 Jonah 3:1- 4:5 Almost everybody knows something about Jonah. Even people on the street know Jonah as the guy who got eaten by a whale, only, of course, there never was any whale, at least not in the Book of Jonah. Some early translators of Matthew’s Gospel got overly ambitious and overly specific, and […]

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Here’s Mud in Your Eye

17-Jan-21 John 9:1-41 I am slowly acclimating myself to the world of the computer. My wife tells me that it is relatively safe to ask the computer a question. Until just a few weeks ago, I used to ask her to look up stuff for me. It wasn’t that long ago that I asked her […]

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For the Sake of You Gentiles

10-Jan-21 Ephesians 3:1-13 By the time that the Apostle Paul is writing to the folks in the church at Ephesus, he is already in prison, where he will eventually die. We consider the Apostle Paul to be a hero of the faith; a man to be emulated and admired. But in order to gain that […]

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God is Faithful

03-Jan-21 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 God is faithful. God is always faithful. People, on the other hand, are not always faithful. Sometimes people are never faithful. People are, well, human. People sometimes have ideas and opinions that overrule what God has to say. And they will hold to those opinions and ideas as if God did […]