Category: Scripture
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this sunday: psalm 95
This coming Sunday our services will be based around Psalm 95. It’s a short passage, just 11 verses, and we’d love for folks to read it a few times beforehand. Don’t have your Bible handy? Here it is…
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mother teresa’s long dark night
The cover of this week’s Time Magazine features an article titled, The Secret Life of Mother Teresa. Why does a national magazine feature Mother Teresa 10 years after her death? According to the article a new book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, brings to light correspondence that has not been widely read until now.…
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who are they?
Kudos to those who guessed last week’s obscure person from the Scriptures: Esther. And that doesn’t count those of you who right clicked the photo and found the answer that way… a mistake I don’t mean to repeat. Such sneaky people! Given the relative obscurity of the people in this coming Sunday’s sermon I guess…
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suggestions please: obscure people
As I mentioned in a previous post, we’re about to start a new sermon series that uses lesser-known people from the Scriptures as a launching point. I’ve got preaching duty on 7/29 so I’m just beginning to prepare. There’s plenty of obscure folks in the Old Testament… and a few in the New Testament (how…
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independence day
I stopped by Home Depot a couple of days ago to buy a couple of hanging flower pots. The two I chose are planted with red, white, and blue flowers for Independence Day. They’re actually more like red, white, and purple so I think we can leave them up past the 4th. Or is that…
David W. Swanson 