Articles Archive for March 2009
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It’s fun to find yourself in the right place at the right time with just the right thing you need to help someone whose options are very thin. That happened to me yesterday. I saw a man having trouble. His car wouldn’t start. It was full of children. I saw him looking around. He didn’t know what to do. I asked him if he needed a “jump.”
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Struggles are easier to take when they make sense. Can you imagine wresting with Jesus? This message recorded at Evangel Sunday morning is my humble attempt to unfold the wonderful story of Jacob’s wrestling match with the mysterious visitor at the brook Jabbok. Let me know what you think.
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“He was executed by Roman authorities about two thousand years ago. Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment media, from confession and controversy, from legend and ritual – Jesus stands quietly at the center of the contemporary world, as he himself predicted. He so graced the ugly instrument upon which he died that the cross has become the most widely exhibited and recognized symbol on earth.”
— Dallas Willard …
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Imagine a little boy at the county fair. He’s gets on the airplane ride. They fasten his seatbelt. He has a sober look on his face. He’s flying the airplane. The ride begins. His little plane goes in circles. His parents and grandparents are shouting and waving as he goes by as if he is Charles Lindberg leaving to cross the Atlantic by air for the first time.
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Yesterday I continued my series of messages on the life of Jacob, Jacob: An Adventure with God. The purpose of the series is to show that the blessing of God is more powerful than any opposition, enemy, difficulty, personal failure, family trouble, or liability. The life of Jacob proves it. Jacob was under the Abrahamic Covenant, we are under the New Covenant in Christ, which is even greater. I hope the message is helpdful to you.
At the end of the message the Pierpont sisters sang a song called …
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Here is an interesting e-mail that came in today from a local church email group. I thought it was humorous.
I’ve been given 2-3 boxes of broccoli crowns. Each box is about 24″x18″x14″. Sadly, they were left outside last night by the family that is giving them to me, and they froze. That means the texture will be off- it won’t be really crisp, but a little rubbery. I’ve put up one box, but now my freezer is full. To freeze it, you’ll need to blanch it about 1-3 minutes, …
