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A Palm Sunday Story

The Easter story and the Easter news, if you remember, begin very early one morning when a messenger tells the women by the empty tomb not to cry because Jesus isn’t there — he is already on his way to...

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Struck Down But Not Defeated

Acts 16:5-15;   John 16:16-22 Our Lenten journey with Jesus continues – in two more weeks, on Palm Sunday, we’ll arrive to Jerusalem. Our Easter Cantata that Sunday will remind us of the welcoming, cheerful multitude along the main road. Now,...

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Party Crashers

1 Corinthians 12:12-13;  Luke 7:36-50   One day while Jesus was going from place-to-place healing, teaching, and befriending people from all ways of life, a man named Simon the Pharisee hosted a very special dinner in his own courtyard. His...

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More Religious, or More Humane?

Jeremiah 8:18-22;   Luke 6:1-11   Like most nations on earth, Israel at times experienced very harsh days and suffering, and when that happened, the Biblical prophets blamed idolatry and unfaithfulness. We don’t talk much about idolatry and unfaithfulness, let alone...

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Testing, Testing, Testing Jesus!

Philippians 2:5-8;  Matthew 4:1-11   The famous French philosopher René Descartes once said, “I think; therefore, I exist.” I’d rather say, “I’m tempted; therefore, I exist.” I am tempted, you are tempted, he or she is tempted, we all are...

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Wesley’s Covenant Renewal

WHAT WE CELEBRATE TODAY In his journal entry for August 6, 1755, John Wesley, a minister of the Church of England and the founder of the Methodist movement, wrote: I mentioned to the congregation another means of increasing serious religion,...

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