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A Summer Sermon: Trusting God in Your Wilderness
“Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway” (1844) by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), National Gallery, London. It is hot all over. The other day we were in my SUV and my wife asked me if I had the...
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Advent Readings and Lightings: Pastoral Preparations for the Coming Season
I wanted to give an aid for congregations and pastors, particularly those in free church backgrounds, who want to move away from the commercialization of the season to focus on the Incarnation. That is...
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Ever-Growing, Ever-Green: A Message on Aging from Psalms 92.14
I was to preach a message to our congregation on the subject of aging. It was to be a senior saint’s Sunday. But for me it turned out to be a Sunday of vigil, over my mother-in-law, who was preparing...
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The Light of the World
Bodie Island Lighthouse, North Carolina “Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life’” (John 8:12)....
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An Advent Message: Mary’s Song
The following post is the first in a series of Scriptural messages called “The Songs of Christmas: Advent Meditations on the Incarnation.” Each week a new Advent message will be prayerfully presented....
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TrinityTide Prayer for Today
lmighty God, give us the increase of faith, hope, and love; and, that we may obtain what you have promised, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you...
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Preaching on Mission (Matthew 4:12 – 17): Keynote Message at the National...
There has never been a more important time to talk to preachers about preaching on mission. The landscape of Old Christendom is like an abandoned strip mine, with huge, gaping, ugly craters, filling...
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“In Jesus Name I Pray:” Exclusivity In Public Prayer and The Restrictive...
English: Bureau of Engraving and Printing engraved vignette of Robert W. Weir’s painting Embarkation of the Pilgrims. Engraving by W.W. Rice. Scanned from an original impression, part of a Treasury...
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What is Your One Sermon?
“We are always preaching out of that life which Christ has crafted. In this, then, we have only one sermon.” Dear Pastoral Students: I want to bring you a charge as we begin this season of study. My...
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A Christmas Eve to Remember
FDR and Churchill address the American nation on Christmas Eve 1941. Before the “war on Christmas,” or the “war on religious liberty” in America, or the hasty dismantling of nativity scenes at military...
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