Announcing a “Lands of the Bible” Cruise – March 2009

Here’s a tremendous opportunity to experience the Bible in person. Visit Egypt and see the Pyramids of Giza, go to Israel and visit Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Galilee, then to Turkey for tours of Antioch, Perga, Aspendos, and Ephesus and wind up in Greece walking among the ruins of ancient Athens and Corinth. You’ll cover …

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Lenten Sermon Series: The Last Week–Friday: The Triumphal Exit (Sermon for 3/16/08)

The Last Week—Friday Mark 15:16-39 We started this series of sermons by talking about a parade on Sunday—actually two parades. There was the procession of the Roman cohort, led by Pontius Pilate, which came into the city of Jerusalem from the west as a show of imperial power, a sign to the people that no …

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Pastor Problems

An interesting piece of this presidential campaign concerns the relationship of Barack Obama to his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who it seems has been rather inflammatory from his pulpit concerning the U.S., racial issues, and a whole lot of other topics. Obama’s in some mildly warm water over this because he has claimed a fairly …

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Lenten Sermon Series: The Last Week–Thursday: The Longest Night (Sermon for 3/9/08)

When I was a kid I spent a big chunk of every summer at my grandparent’s little farm in rural western Pennsylvania. My grandpa was a retired brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, but what he was really known for was his ability to grow things. The little farm was really just one big garden—there was …

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Lenten Sermon Series: The Last Week – Wednesday: The Betrayer

The Last Week: Wednesday—The Betrayer Mark 14:1-11 Every good story has a villain—an avatar of evil, if you will, that makes the hero seem more virtuous and the story more interesting. It’s interesting, too, that in the movies it’s often the actor portraying a villain that gets the Oscar nomination. A nasty villain seems to …

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Dumbing Down

I was driving home the other day listening to the POTUS ’08 channel on XM radio–a channel dedicated to all things related to the presidential campaign. While that sounds quite intellectual on my part, keep in mind that most of the time I listen to ESPN radio or one of the comedy channels, but this …

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