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William Sloan Coffin – on love

By on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 | No Comments

I first met Bill Coffin while a student in seminary.  In fact, I to introduce him at a campus event sponsored by “The Ethics Luncheon” – if I can find the tape and covert it from VCR to digital format, I will post it here.  Don’t know who Coffin is?  Do a Google Search.  You’ll […]

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Thoughts from William Barclay

By on Monday, September 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Commenting on Ephesians 2:1-10, the world-renowned Scottish New Testament interpreter wrote: “Sometimes Christianity is presented in such a way that it sounds as if God had to be pacified, as if God had to be persuaded to forgive.  Sometimes people speak as if they would draw a picture of a stern, angry, unforgiving God and […]

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Changed by Grace

By on Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | No Comments

A tremendous thrill swept through Jericho in anticipation of Jesus’ arrival.  This was nothing unusual.  An appearance by Jesus always caused some sort of commotion.  The sick came to be healed.  The hungry came to be fed.  Parents brought their children to be blessed.  Curious onlookers came to observe.  Even the enemies of Jesus were […]

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Quick Quotes….T.F.Torrance

By on Sunday, August 14th, 2011 | No Comments

“Perhaps the most fundamental truth which we have to learn in the Christian Church, or rather relearn since we have suppressed it, is that the incarnation was the coming of God to save us in the heart of our fallen and depraved humanity, where humanity is at its wickedest in its enmity and violence against […]

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Alive In Christ

By on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Here is the sermon from Patterson Avenue Baptist, dated on July 31, based on Collossians 1 & 2, with special focus on 2:6-14. The though behind this sermon is simply this:  “We are not called to live for Christ.  It it so much better than this.  We are ALIVE IN CHRIST – and our lifestyles […]

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Living by Faith

By on Friday, August 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Living by faith means living in response to God’s continual movements of grace.   Living by faith means that we trust Jesus to save us—to unite us with God.  Living by faith means that we allow God to unite us to one another in a new humanity—the family of God.  Living by faith means that we […]

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I am NOT a Legalist

By on Friday, August 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Nobody will ever accuse my son of being a legalist… (Read the sign on the wall behind him!)  

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Christmas In August with C.S. Lewis

By on Thursday, August 4th, 2011 | No Comments

In C.S. Lewis’ book “The Loin, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” readers are taken to the mythical land of Narnia.  When Narnia is living under the authority of the witch, it is “always winter, but never Christmas.”  It is a land filled with darkness and despair, devoid of hope and without possibility.  Today our world […]

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Doubters and Skeptics Take Note

By on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankel argued that the “loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect on man.”  As a result of his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankel contended that when a person no longer possesses a motive for living, no future to look forward toward, that […]

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Shepherd

By on Monday, August 1st, 2011 | No Comments

In the gospels Jesus once referred to himself as a shepherd.  He also siad that his disciples are those who hear voice follow him.  I was not exactly sure what that meant until I visited the Holy Land. As our tour bus was making its way through the Palestinian desert, we experienced mechanical problems and had […]

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