The Lost Diary of Joshua
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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New Testament Reading-Luke 4: 31-37 As Michael Greenberg describes it, July 5th was the day his daughter went mad. What transpired reminded Greenberg of a legend he had once heard
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New Testament Reading-Mark 8: 27-37 Ostensibly, a wedding should be a high point on the happiness continuum of life, and indeed for Eunita and I it was, but I must
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*Homey is a slang word defined as a term of endearment signifying a close relationship characterized by faith and trust. New Testament Reading-John 2:1-11
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New Testament Reading-Mark 6: 1-6 I decided that for my sermon today I would address three of the suggested topics and questions that I received from church members in the
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Hebrew Scripture Reading-Psalm 148 What’s fact and what’s fiction is hard to determine, but legend has it that on a road six miles south of Assisi, Saint Francis became a
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New Testament Reading-Philippians 1: 12-22 When I was conducting research for my dissertation, I visited a wide variety of churches including a church that was part of the Word of
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