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Holy Wednesday, Debates and Discourse About the Temple

By on Thursday, April 13th, 2017 | No Comments

Holy Wednesday Debates and Discourse About the Temple (Matthew 24-25) While a student in seminary I worked for about nine months as the youth minister of a church in down-town Louisville, Kentucky.  At one time the church had been very large.  It had known a very active ministry.  Times had been changing, however, and the […]

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Holy Monday, Temple Cleansinng, and Violence

By on Monday, April 10th, 2017 | No Comments

Holy Monday Reflection Today is often referred to as HOLY MONDAY.  It is the day after Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem.  It is the Monday before the LAST SUPPER…before Jesus’ arrest, trial, and crucifixion. This is the day that Jesus cleansed the temple.  Here is how The Gospel of Mark recounts this incident Mark 11:15-19 […]

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Was Jesus Forsaken By His Father?

By on Friday, October 9th, 2015 | No Comments

I used to believe that God turned his back on Jesus at the cross.  The reason for my blind acceptance of this idea is that the Sunday School teachers and pastors from my youth taught this as truth.  Further, it fit so well with their equally unbiblical notion that God was too HOLY to look […]

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Seeing The Glass Overflowing

By on Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 | No Comments

The manuscript for the sermon preached 7/12/15 at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church. Whenever you visit any blog, please be kind and help out the blog publisher. If you find a post helpful, inspirational, or even a bit controversial, PLEASE SHARE via social media.  Support through contributions or product purchases (whatever seems most useful and appropriate). […]

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Funeral Mediation for the Reverend Dan Stevens

By on Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 | No Comments

Below is the funeral mediation honoring the Reverend Dan Steven’s, former pastor of the Park View Baptist Church (now Patterson Avenue Baptist). Dan Steven’s Best Day – Revelation 21:4-7 The last time Dan preached at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church, he addressed the question:  “What do you do on the worst day of your life?”  We […]

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Look Serious

By on Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 | No Comments

Gloom, despair and agony an me, Deep, dark depression, Excessive misery. If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Many of you, no doubt, recognize this as a chorus from the popular country-western variety show Heehaw.  After singing this chorus, you will remember, one of […]

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Lessons From A Busted Water Pipe

By on Monday, March 23rd, 2015 | 1 Comment

Alice turned 100 years old this past November.  She is actively involved in the life of our congregation.  She’s been an active participant in this congregation (and Calvary Baptist before us) for ALL of her life.  So she’s her lots of sermons over here lifetime. So, when Ms. Alice requested a copy of this sermon to […]

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Coping With Opposition

By on Thursday, January 15th, 2015 | 1 Comment

While living in Louisville, Kentucky (while attending seminary many more years ago than I would like to admit) I was briefly employed as a youth minister for a 150-year-old congregation located downtown.  Situated in what had been a very prosperous neighborhood, the area surrounding the church had since deteriorated.  The majority of the members in […]

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Does A Person Need To Turn To God To Be Forgiven?

By on Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 | No Comments

I noticed something in a review of Luke 15 that got me thinking.  Especially in light of a Facebook comment I read which said:  “Forgiveness doesn’t start until we do turn back.” The thought behind that comment, if I am not mistaken, is that grace – mercy, God’s love, forgiveness, the whole package – is […]

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CAT

By on Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 | No Comments

While beginning preparations for this sermon (snowed in, stuck at home) I could hear my CAT upstairs screaming for everyone attention.  Like most cats, she thinks she is the center of the universe.  That’s the root of the temptation stories.  The “devil” invites Jesus (and his followers) to imagine that they are the center of […]

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