I. On to Philippi
- A lot of people tend to make a good deal of this trip over to Macedonia – it is the beginning of the Jesus movement in Europe, they say – Lydia is the first convert in Europe, they say – those sorts of things,
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I. Introduction
- With the election of President Obama in 2008 and his reelection in 2012, and with the recent release of the feature film “42,” which is about Jackie Robinson becoming the first black player in the major leagues in the twentieth century, the question of race has
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I. Introduction
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Once again violence has hit us this week – whether or not we were in Boston, whether or not we knew anyone who was there, whether or not we even know anyone who lives there, we have all felt the sting of violence –
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I. Introduction
- As human beings, there is usually a desire for love in our lives – some people seem able to live almost hermetic lives, lives with little need for or interaction with other people, but those people are unusual – most of us desire and search for
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I. Trial Before the Council
- Our text is a small piece of a larger whole that describes more than one interaction between the Apostles and the Jewish Council in Jerusalem – at the beginning of Acts chapter 4, Peter and John have annoyed the Council, especially the Sadducees,
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I. Introduction
- Almost universally in human history, creation stories begin with a death, most usually a death of god – sometimes there is a war between the gods and the winner slays the loser then uses the loser's body to create the heavens and the earth – I
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Good Friday service at
Glen Echo Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio
I. Introduction
- We live in a broken world – we live broken lives – we want, we desire, and our desire breaks us – desire breaks our relationships with God, with one another, and
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I. Introduction
- Progressive Christians are not big on the idea of confession – we often do not like a recitation of our sins or of our sin, however you might want to define it, and we do not like the idea of confession as a recitation of our
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I. Introduction
- I do not know about you, but I love the smell of a new car, not that I get to smell it often – like so many things, someday scientists will probably discover that that smell is toxic or carcinogenic, but I love it – it
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I. Introduction
- It is possible that we live in a world in which death is the dominant element – we may not believe that, and we may rebel against such an idea, but I believe it may be true nonetheless – and it always has been
- History books
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