Ministry of the Word
Category for posts offering reflections and comments on important Bible passages and how a Christian perspective informs a person’s view of current events.
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Originally Proclaimed 04/19/20 Intro: Do you remember the show “Whose Line is it Anyway?” The show pitted various actors against one another in teams giving them the task of improvising a scene to entertain the audience. Far from having the audience vote or respond with clapping, etc to determine which skits were best, the host
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/12/20 Intro: What is a good death? That question has been a major part of this series on the last words of Christ. Yet in our culture today we seem to be allergic to death, even its mention. We avoid discussing death by using euphemisms like “passing on”, “dearly departed” and “resting peace”.
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/09/20 Intro: Back a number of years ago, when I was a youth pastor, our group went on a World Changers Mission Trip to Tallahassee, Florida. I had the joy of being assigned to a roofing crew. Even though we were working on a hip roof, and it was at no place more
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/05/20 Intro Have you ever felt forsaken? Truly I can only ever think of two times in my life where I genuinely felt forsaken. One happened before I was ten. Union’s Carnegie Library held a children’s program for which my Mom dropped me off. It was not unusual for those programs to
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Originally Proclaimed: 03/29/20 Intro: In the earliest Protestant Catechism, the Heidelberg Catechism, the first question asks believers, “What is your only comfort in life and in death?” Just for a moment consider the answer to that question is not being so clear. Think about being someone who has never heard of Christ and his atoning
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Originally Proclaimed 03/22/20 Intro: In anticipation of Easter, we begin a four week series that will take us through the last words of Jesus Christ. Last words are important. They have an immediate impact due to the trauma of death, but also due to the significance of our lives. They linger in our minds, which
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