Posted on December 16, 2009 by The Parson
The Advent season, which we are now in, is about waiting: we wait for Christmas, anticipating the remembrance of Christ’s birth. We are to cease our hurrying and listen for God’s voice in the Scriptures. In Advent, we recognize that we are waiting for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, too. And waiting is not [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2009 by The Parson
A Thanksgiving Psalm and Prayer:
Psalm 103:1-22 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. (2) Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: (3) Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; (4) Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by The Parson
On Veteran’s Day, let us all pause to honor our service men and women, and to recall the sacrifices of those who gave their lives in defense of freedom and liberty.This year, our thoughts especially turn to those who were killed at Ft. Hood, and their families.
The following prayers are from the A Book of [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2009 by The Parson
I have to say it–I don’t like Halloween. I have my reasons, and in my mind, they are good ones. Maybe part of the reason I’m grumpy about Halloween is that I cut my finger carving up a pumpkin this evening. No…that’s not my problem!
It is too gory, too dark, and has far too much [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by The Parson
I want to revisit a quote I made from Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion about the starting place for all theology, worship, doctrine and morals. This is what he said:
“Man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2009 by The Parson
Deuteronomy 10:17-21 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: (18) He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. (19) Love ye therefore [...]
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Posted on June 4, 2009 by The Parson
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday.
Act 9:1-8 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, (2) And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound [...]
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Posted on May 22, 2009 by The Parson
James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
There is something we are to “DO” in the Christian life, and there is something we are to “RECEIVE.” Doing is active, receiving is more passive. We are to “lay apart” [...]
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Posted on May 11, 2009 by The Parson
I was reading in Luke 13 this morning–I’ve been preaching a series of sermons from that chapter. As I came to Luke 13:10-17, I read with great interest about our Lord being at the synagogue that day, where He encountered the woman with the “spirit of infirmity” as the King James Version puts it. This [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by The Parson
The Good Shepherd (A message preached on 4-26-09)
1 Peter 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. (KJV)
When we think about all that this title means we realize that His being a Shepherd for us is meant to communicate that He cares for [...]
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