A Few Thoughts on Music
Dear Church Family and Friends, Recently, as I drove around town, I listened to a CD of Mitch Albom reading his new book “Have a Little Faith.” For me, the
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Hebrew Scripture Reading-1 Chronicles 6: 31-48 Last week as I listened to the choir sing “Kyrie” and Natalie sing her solo I kept wondering what is it that makes music
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Hebrew Scripture Reading-Joshua 1: 1-11 Dwight D. Eisenhower was not yet a general when his father died only four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He worked a desk
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HEBREW SCRIPTURE READING-Ecclesiastes 9: 13-18 I am a recent fan of a television show called Leverage. Last year its second season was actually produced across the river in Portland. The
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New Testament Reading-Matthew 5: 1-12 My plan for this morning was to preach a sermon that would lift up the life of Meena Keshwar Kamal, a woman who devoted 12
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New Testament Scripture Reading-Luke 8: 4-15 More than 25 years ago, a couple of gringos landed in Vicente Guerrero, a rural village in Tlaxcala, Mexico. The village consisted principally of
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