Category: Preaching
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Luke 15 — Stories of Loss, Recovery, and Celebration
Reading this post will take some time. Maybe have your Bible ope not Luke 15, too.
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Did Greenbean Make A Mistake?
After all, he is fallible and endearingly human. I am referring to a specific mistake that I may have made, or did I? I freely admit I wasn’t thinking this complexly in the moment, although it was premeditated in that I planned to say it. My mistakes often flow from unplanned moments. But this was…
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Distorted
File this one under Greenbean’s failing memory. Sunday (June 11) I preached the second of three sermons from Matthew 25. The sermons are about the end of the world, but not in an apocalyptic way, more in the cautionary narrative tone Jesus uses in this chapter which Matthew puts right after the frightening Olivet Discourse,…
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Ash Wednesday – 2023
Today is the first day of Lent. A primary activity of the Lenten season (not the only, but primary) is fasting. Christ-followers should fast. Jesus clearly expects it of us for he tells us, But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but…