Category: Sermons
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Christmas Counting
This is a long post, but it recalls a long day which has lasted fourteen years so far. This week marks the fourteenth anniversary of my youngest daughter’s T1D diagnosis (aka “diaversary”). Fourteen years ago, progress to a cure seemed so close that we were told that a cure was…
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Unwound
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?” – Jonah 4:3,4 [gigya src=”https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/cdn/embed_player.swf” style=”background-color:transparent; display:block; max-width: 700px;” flashvars=”image_option=small&imgURL=https%3A%2F%2Fd15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net%2Fi%2F19419854%2F300x300%2Fc&link_color=%2358d1eb&mp3Author=randamir&mp3Duration=71601.6&mp3LinkURL=https%3A%2F%2Faudioboom.com%2Fboos%2F4106343-unwound&mp3Time=03.40pm+26+Jan+2016&mp3Title=Unwound&mp3URL=https%3A%2F%2Faudioboom.com%2Fboos%2F4106343-unwound.mp3%3Fsource%3Dwordpress&player_theme=light&rootID=boo_player_1&show_title=true&waveimgURL=https%3A%2F%2Fd15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net%2Fi%2Fw%2F4400580″ width=”100%” height=”150″ allowFullScreen=”true” wmode=”transparent”] Wound in God’s mercy…
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Overthrown
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” Jonah 3:4 He preached to Nineveh’s proud, hardened heart Both to high and low in station and in rank, And hearing and humbled they rent garments apart…
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An Easter Meditation
Thoughts on Easter and my wife’s recent hospitalization. You may listen to it here. 1 Peter 3:18“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit…” Brought to…
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"This intolerable calling…
This intolerable calling requires courage and humility. It requires a life full of God. It also requires that the preacher become as wise as possible. Even an expository preacher has to become a kind of sage, a person who is conversant on the range of biblical topics and who can…
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