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I think there is a bit of mystique that shrouds a pastor's study: What exactly is taking place in there? How does he emerge with a sermon to preach every Sunday? And does he have a mini-fridge in there? Recently, someone asked about my sermon preparation, and I thought I would swing wide the door to …
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"I grew up in Freetown, Virginia, a community of farming people. It wasn't really a town. The name was adopted because the first residents had all been freed from chattel slavery and they wanted to be known as a town of Free People." From the opening paragraph of The Taste of Country Cooking, I was …
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What is the kingdom of God? ... ... ... I've been waiting patiently for a full minute, and you still can't come up with a coherent answer? Consider the fact that the Gospels summarize the message of Jesus in this way: "The kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe the gospel!" (Mark 1:15; …
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One of our church leaders is teaching a personal finance discipleship class this spring, and I was putting together a spreadsheet for him that helps members make an honest assessment of their current giving to the church. If you are interested in that resource, you can download the PDF. I was just going to upload …
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I'm working on a project involving Proverbs 31, and I've really fallen in love with the poetry of it's twenty-two lines. The famous work is an acrostic, each line beginning with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Hopefully there will be much more to come on the poem from me, but for now I …
