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Gospels

A Fumbling Pharisee

21-Feb-21 John 3:1-17 One of the characteristic flaws of the human species is our inability to communicate with one another. The art of communication is something that very few of us have mastered. Too often we think that we have heard something, and we respond to it without actually having listened to it. This happens […]

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Torah

The Fruit of Disobedience

14-Feb-21 Genesis 3:1-7 “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made.” And thus begins the saddest tale in all of human history, because this crafty serpent is the reason that you and I find it difficult to be faithful and obedient to God. This serpent, a […]

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Epistles

A Lamp Shining in a Dark Place

07-Feb-21 II Peter 1:16-21 “Religion, and the transformed attitudes and behaviors that accompany it, has been irrelevant in our culture for decades.” I wonder if that sounds familiar to anybody? Is somebody thinking to themselves right now, “I read that someplace not too long ago, now where did I see it?” Well, if it rings […]

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Gospels

Light has Dawned

31-Jan-21 Matthew 4:12-17 Matthew assumes that his readers know all about why John the Baptist had been arrested and put in prison, and so he doesn’t tell us that story until chapter fourteen. Unfortunately for John, in addition to being a baptizer, he was also a hellfire and damnation prophet. And it turns out that […]