Category: Church
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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…
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MAKING A MOVE
I have spent the better part of the weekend moving my things from the old modular into our new administrative center. For the past decade all the staff offices have been in a rotting, dank, dim, and mold infested trailer behind the church’s main building. Recently, though, my wonderful church has spent a lot of…
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ADVENT WEEK 2 TRANSLATION
Today I post what I translated last week in my Gospel Advent readings. These verses are very dramatic, featuring the conclusion of the frightening Olivet Discourse, Jesus predicting Peter’s denial, Judas’ betrayal and the Lord’s Supper. Curiously, the Gospel readings take a side trip away from Luke and over to John 8 for the “woman…