May 30, 2017 Today I cleaned a clean carpet. My favorite kind. It looks great when I’m done. Of course, it looked pretty good before I started. Funny thing with these easy cleanups, the customer will come in after I’ve cleaned and say, “Oh my, what a difference. The colors are so much brighter!” I […]
Saint Augustine was grateful he had become a Christian, but regretted he had used so much of his life for his own selfish pursuits before he did. LATE HAVE I loved you, O beauty so ancient and so new. Late have I loved you! You were within me while I have gone outside to seek […]
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Evangelist Ron Dunn tells the story of a man who was one of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Over the course of his life, this man had acquired an art collection that was worth millions of dollars. He had paintings by Rembrandt, Gauguin, Monet, and many other great artists. The […]
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http://www.preachingtoday.com/media/podcast/preaching-during-easter.html?start=2 It’s a sermon called “The Up-to-the-Minute Relevance of the Resurrection.” This is a clip from his intro so let’s listen to that and then we’ll break it down. John Stott: I think it’s important for us to be quite clear on what we’re talking about. We’re not talking about Jesus’ survival, as a result […]
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“A God you understood would be less than yourself.” – Flannery O’Connor Read the Bible! It’s not mainly a heaven-and-hell story but a heaven-and-earth story. – Howard Snyder (Wineskins) Read the Bible! It’s not mainly a heaven-and-hell story but a heaven-and-earth story. pic.twitter.com/2eAhE5egpX — Howard A Snyder (@SnyderWineskins) March 24, 2017
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We invite a little sin into our life – just a little temptation – hopefully in moderation. We want the pleasure and freedom of a little bit of sin, without the harmful side effects. But we find sin taking over our life instead. Early detection is crucial. We’ll weed it out in time, before anything […]
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http://www.leaderworks.org/palm/?platform=hootsuite March 16, 2016| David Roseberry| Liturgy & Worship| Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you; righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. –Zechariah 9:9 But Palm Sunday tells us that it is the cross […]
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Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. —Luke 2:11 In the summer of 1861, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife, Frances, died tragically in a fire. That first Christmas without her, he wrote in his diary, “How inexpressibly sad are the holidays.” The next year […]
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The Romans Road to Salvation (Memorize this) Romans 3:23 My Reality: Ruin “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 6:23 My Just Reward “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 5:8 God’s Remedy “God demonstrates his own […]
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The other two days have earned names on the church calendar: Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Yet in a real sense we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What the disciples experienced in small scale—three days in grief over one man who had died on a cross—we now live through on cosmic scale. […]