As part of our Lenten self-denial, in the spirit of Lent, today’s message will be a little longer than usual, and I do know that I can already run, um,…
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General, later President Eisenhower and, a few years after, General Douglas MacArthur were both honored by ticker-tape parades.  And no wonder—both had been at the strategic epicenter of bringing terrible,…
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The Light of Invincible Life

February 11, 2024
I’ve been trying to take Mark’s account—what Peter told Mark—in order this year.  Today, with our forty-day walk to Easter about to begin, I’m jumping ahead.  Today is Transfiguration Sunday. …
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Worth Suffering

June 11, 2023
It pays to know some history.  It was the American philosopher and Harvard professor George Santayana who wrote, back in 1905, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to…
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Real Help for Real Need

June 12, 2022
          I want a church where real need can find real help; I believe that you want that, too.  When I preach, I aim to make the heart of my…
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Churches just aren’t as evangelistic as they used to be.  For Presbyterians, that might not be saying much, but it still ought to cause each of us to pause a…
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There’s no question that God wants to be known, though He will not force anyone to acknowledge Him, until the day He does.  Until then, He speaks His Word, opening…
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That Can’t Be Right!

September 12, 2021
Have you thought about how many miles Jesus walked?  He walks almost as far as Ethel Cloudt, who’s logged about 230 miles so far this year.  This going out is…
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Learning with Jesus

March 21, 2021
          God sent Jesus to be our Redeemer, our Savior.  Redemption comes with a cost; payment must be made, satisfaction given.  The one wronged—God—must be satisfied.  I don’t have the…
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The Limits of Our Discipleship

February 28, 2021
          Peter isn’t happy about what’s going to happen to Jesus.  Neither are we.  Suffer?  Killed?  Terrible!  Let’s be followers without the suffering.  In seminary, no one quite knew what…
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