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Prophets

Amos, What Do You See?

14-Jul-19 Amos 8 There’s probably nothing much prettier than a basket of summer fruit. In those fancy magazines that show pictures of those lovely houses that obviously no human being has ever set foot in, there’s always a basket or a bowl of fruit sitting ever so prettily on the kitchen counter. We know that […]

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So Then…

07-Jul-19 Galatians 6:1-10 This past week we celebrated our independence from the British Empire. So I thought it might be good to spend some time this morning thinking some about our interdependence with one another in the kingdom of God. The Apostle Paul had a somewhat touchy relationship with the followers of Jesus in the […]

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Prophets

A Pair Of Real Nasties

16-Jun-19 1 Kings 21  Ahab and his wife Jezebel are probably the baddest of the bad in all of the Bible. The two of them are so self-centered and self-focused that evil just pours out of them like sewer from a broken sewer main. They are certainly a pair of real nasties. It turns out […]

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Epistles

From Grace To Glory

09-Jun-19 Romans 5:1-5  I’m quite certain that I’m not very far off the target here. What a lame way to start a sermon! What in heaven is he talking about? I’ll tell you. I suspect that very few of us here this morning got the holy shivers while I was reading this passage. And I […]

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Gospels

Slaves And Prisoners

02-Jun-19 Acts 16:16-25  Slavery, in all of it’s various forms is still very much with us. We like to believe that we live in a modern, enlightened age where all persons are treated with the dignity and the respect that they have been created to receive, but that is not at all the case. We […]

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Epistles

The “End” Is, Of Course, Yet Another Beginning

19-May-19 Revelation 21:1-7  The Bible is a wonderful and yet mysterious book. And it is a wonderful and mysterious book because its author is also wonderful and mysterious. Almighty God is our constant companion in this life, and yet there is absolutely nothing about him that we do not stand, or more appropriately, completely fall […]

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Gospels

Death Shall Not Have the Final Say

12-May-19 Acts 9:36-43  We live in a culture of death and destruction. Death and destruction is all around us. The world is filled with people who are filled with hatred. And this hatred is demonically motivated. There is no other way to describe it. That hatred works itself out in acts of violence and death, […]

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Gospels

The Missionary Community Goes Fishing

05-May-19 John 21:1-19  Well, last week we witnessed the creation and the commissioning and the complete empowerment of the new missionary community. And this week, that new missionary community, has, apparently, decided to kick-off the ministry by going on a fishing trip. Or, maybe not kick it off at all, and just go fishing instead. […]

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Gospels

The Missionary Community (Slowly) Gets Underway

28-Apr-19 John 20:19-31  It is Easter day, but it is evening. The disciples of Jesus have retreated, perhaps to a familiar place. It is somewhat likely that after Jesus’ death, that the disciples returned to the house in Jerusalem where they and Jesus had celebrated their last Passover together. John the Evangelist tells us right […]

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Gospels

O The Stench, O The Glory!

07-Apr-19 John 12:1-8 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 felt about that. There […]