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O the Stench, O the Glory!

21-Mar-21 John 12:1-8 Fifth Sunday in Lent I don’t usually hear people shouting during our calls to worship, even though the clear and biblical instruction from within some of them is to do exactly that. In our psalm this morning, when it was my turn to shout, I intentionally disobeyed. I’ll not ask how you […]

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Good Enough For Who it’s For

14-Mar-21 Acts 2:42-47 Fourth Sunday in Lent It has been said that I am cheap. I prefer to be referred to as a person who exercises the wisdom of frugality. I bristle a little bit at cheap, because it was a word that my mother used of other women who wore items of clothing of […]

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Writings

Both of Me in There at the Same Time

07-Mar-21 Psalm 27 Third Sunday in Lent This psalm is very nearly divided right down the middle. It is a psalm that expresses deep confidence in God and in God’s ways, but it is also a psalm that admits, quite boldly, that not all is well all the time. Sometimes things go horribly wrong. David […]

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Our Lady of the Window

28-Feb-21 John 4:1-4 Second Sunday in Lent There had to have been a committee. That’s just the way Baptists work. There must have been lots of samples to look over, and there must have been some difficult choices to make. And maybe some strong opinions one way or another, and maybe even an argument or […]