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Born Wild; Grown Tame?

May 31, 2015 Acts 2:1-21 I have a feeling that if some strangers happened to show up unannounced in one of our worship services one Sunday morning, that one conclusion that they would probably never come to is that we are all drunk. We might look sleepy, but we certainly wouldn’t look like we were […]

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Moving Toward Faith

April 19, 2015 Luke 24:13-49 I sometimes wish that the disciples of Jesus had done a better job of believing that Jesus was alive after his resurrection.  It seems like it took them forever to accept the fact that Jesus was alive, even when they were confronted with him face to face.  I would like […]

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Terror and Amazement!

April 12, 2015 Mark 16:1-8 The immediate problem is the stone that has been rolled against the entrance to the tomb.  The women who are coming to the tomb this morning had been watching the evening before when Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus, and sealed the tomb by rolling that huge stone in front of […]

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The Trouble With Being Human

March 1, 2015 Mark 8:31-38 We spent a few moments with Peter last week.  Peter’s not a bad guy at all.  He’s just human.  And being human is sometimes the whole trouble with us.  We aren’t God, never have been, but sometimes we sure like to play God.  Years ago, some company had some sort […]

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Nazareth?

February 15, 2015 John 1:43-51 I suspect that some of us here this morning probably have a favorite Bible character.  There’s probably some man or some woman in the Bible with whom we have a special affinity.  Perhaps its someone whom we admire and aspire to be like ourselves.  Perhaps its someone in the Scriptures […]

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The Teacher Is In

February 1, 2015 Mark 1:21-28 There is a place in all of our lives where we must decide for ourselves who Jesus is, and who he will be for us.  That moment of decision can only be described in terms of a crisis.  Now most of us, I know, would just as soon avoid a […]

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The Story No One Wants to Hear

January 11, 2015 Matthew 2:7-18 My guess is that most of us like the wise men quite well.  There’s something about these mysterious guys who see a star, intuit that it means that a new king has been born to the Jews, and then, amazingly, strike out on a journey to Jerusalem to visit with […]