Category: Scripture
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ray’s random thoughts: a new year
Ray is PCC’s Senior Pastor. Friends, Every New Year’s Eve or thereabouts, the local newspaper lists names of some of the famous people who died during the previous twelve months. Brief epitaphs describing their lives and accomplishments follow. Maybe I’m weird, but I like reading through these summaries. They indicate what these men and women…
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have a provocative christmas
Given the season, many of us have been meditating on Advent these days. Our small group read through Luke 2 on Sunday and had a wide-ranging conversation about this absolutely implausible story. One of the themes we returned to a few times had to do with the characters in the nativity story. In Luke’s version…
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a quote from leslie newbign
In light of everyone’s generosity lately, this quote from Leslie Newbigin seemed appropriate to share when I read it on Wednesday. Jesus is both totally compassionate and totally uncompromising about what is involved in coming to the fullness of life. There can be no compromise with false ideas about what it is that makes for…
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ray’s random thoughts: another year
Ray is PCC’s Senior Pastor. Friends, Please. No applause, gifts or platitudes necessary or expected, but this month I, once again, celebrate the passing of yet another year. How many have I successfully navigated, you ask? Let me put it this way. The year I was born, the biggest news in pop culture was the…
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ray’s random thoughts: thanksgiving
Ray is PCC’s Senior Pastor Friends, In case you haven’t noticed, for more than two weeks, Santa Claus has been getting his picture taken with runny-nosed kids at local malls. Stores have been selling tinsel since Halloween. Downtown shopping districts are decked with boughs of holly. The Grinch was on TV last week! Oh, and…
David W. Swanson 