Category: Church
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COUNTING THE DAYS
Last Sunday I was scheduled to preach on Psalm 90 as a New Year themed sermon. Sadly, I was called away due to the death of my wonderful father-in-law (please keep us in your prayers, he will be greatly missed). Here is a smidgen of that sermon, which will stay safely tucked away until next…
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ADVENT WEEK 4 TRANSLATION
I apologize for the tardiness of this blog. It was supposed to be posted last week, but, alas, many things emerged which prevented that. I will be running silently for the next week or so but I wanted to get these wonderful Advent passages, especially the Magnificat, posted first. John 5:30-37 I am not able…
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RESOLVED TO RESOLVE
Today’s blog is not about New Year Resolutions, or what resolutions you should make or I might make. No, we’re not quite that far along yet. New Year’s Day is still on the horizon. Today’s Fresh Greenbean wants you to think about what categories of your life you will make resolutions about when the big…
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ADVENT WEEK 3 TRANSLATION
The third week of Advent focuses very heavily upon the repentance and baptism message of John the Baptist. It was very exciting to translate Matthew, Mark, and Luke all telling the same thing but with slightly different tellings. There are so many hermeneutical things which could be addressed in these passages–from the conclusion of the…