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During the month of December, we took a break from our usual sermon series from the Gospel of Luke. For the 4 Sundays leading up to Christmas, I preached 4 different sermons on Reactions to the Christmas Message. (Our church found this series to be such a blessing. We would recommend it for any future…
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Someone once said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This old and familiar phrase means that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image. In many ways, I learned this on my first trip to New York City. I had often heard that New York City was so big,…
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I just finished reading Kevin Deyoung’s book The Hole in Our Holiness. I found the book to be very good. I was blessed by it. The book is short and easy to read. It only has 146 pages, and it is 10 chapters long so someone can quite easily read a chapter a day. On…
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I remember those Saturday mornings as a teenager. The ones that came after late Friday nights from a hard-fought high school basketball game that left me drained. The ones that came at the tail end of a tiring school week full of tests, papers and homework assignments. Those Saturday mornings when nothing sounded better then…
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Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” It seems today that “drama” and “issues” are so common. We live in a day where many people have problems with one another. I often recall Gandhi’s quote “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians.…