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Know Your Culture –Preaching Tip for 26 August 2018

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What is happening in your culture? Try to use metaphors that help people relate scripture to what is going on in their lives and their world. If the metaphor is unrelatable, they will not receive the full impact of that scripture. To access this post, you must...

Pastor’s Prayer for 26 August 2018

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Forgive them all, O Lord: our sins of omission and our sins of commission; the sins of our youth and the sins of our riper years; the sins of our souls and the sins of our bodies; our secret and our more open sins; our sins of ignorance and surprise, …..and our more...
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

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Come Sunday, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Condola Rashad, Jason Segel, and Martin Sheen Rated TV-14; available on Netflix Review by Ashley Davis Come Sunday recounts the true story of evangelist Carlton Pearson, an Oral-Roberts-trained preacher turned Unitarian...
Reframing the Soul

Reframing the Soul

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Reframing the Soul: How Words Transform Our Faith Gregory Spencer Leafwood Publishers, 2018   –Review by Landrum P. Leavell III, ThD.             As I look back each year at the list of books I consume, there are usually several volumes dealing with...
Amen, and Amen

Amen, and Amen

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Amen, and Amen Lectionary 19 August 2018 13th Sunday After Pentecost 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 Psalm 111 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 Text to Life There was a time, not so long ago, when a handshake really did “seal the deal.” If witnessed by others, a handshake...