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Paul and Leverage
As a spiritual leader, it is likely that you have leverage beyond your awareness or appreciation. If you cannot identify it, you can only use it by accident. Let us examine a snippet of the life and ministry of a… Continue reading
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Resolving Conflict through Matrimony, an Old Model for Our Times. Congre… Continue reading
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Bless My Dirty Little Heart – Dirty or Clean – Jesus Breaks it Down in M… Continue reading
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Bless My Dirty Little Heart
Mark 7:14-24 Mark 7:14-23 Again, Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles… Continue reading
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William Barclay on Mark 7:14-23
Mark 7:14-23 (NRSVU) Again, Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”… Continue reading
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Love in the Concrete
Pastor Fudd preached, yesterday, on loving and forgiving. This morning, he got up and poured fresh new cement for a sidewalk. Little Jimmy Mischief came along and planted his footprints in the pristine surface and pastor Fudd was aroused to… Continue reading
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Lombard Lessons
Life takes unexpected twists and turns. Sometimes, you feel completely out of control. That is because you are not in complete control. You only control part of your reality at any given time: your responses. I had barely arrived in… Continue reading
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Mother Mary
Black Madonna of Czestocho Mother Mary, Theotokos Saint Mary’s memory is honored in many Christian churches today. Mary was flesh and blood and Jesus was her son, flesh, blood, and connected with her people. All of us, called to… Continue reading
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