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The Power of Release

Your speech affects others. If you speak with anger and bitterness, others will feel your anger and bitter attitude. If you speak with unforgiving phrases toward those who you feel have slighted you, that hurt will be accentuated and aggravated. What you say and how you say it will bring those around you down into […]

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How To Avoid A Blessing

Here’s how to avoid a blessing. Be bitter and suspicious. Today I had the oil change in my car. When I paid, the company gave me a 50% off coupon for a second car oil change in the next month. Not needing it, the gal at the register said: “Feel free to give it to […]

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My New Sweater

I bet you know what this feels like. You go to a mall and shop in a major department store.  You make your way through electronics, housewares, appliances, and so forth.  As you do, you re approached by numerous salespersons.  Their attempt to get your business is almost always the same. “Can I help you […]

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A Negativity Fast

Have you stopped to consider all the reasons we have to feel anxious, nervous, fretful, and depressed?  Have you thought about all the forces lined up in the attempt to make us feel negative.  Here’s just a short list from a few days worth of news. Ebola Enterovirus Children in college disappearing FBI Chief warns […]

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The Might of the Widow’s Mite – Memorial for Nancy Monger

SCRIPTURE Luke 21:1-4 21: And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. 3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; 4 for all these out […]

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Is the Kingdom of God Dependent on ME?

I spent a great deal of my early years in ministry trying to lead congregations to engage with me in actions that might BRING the Kingdom of God to earth.I would list all the particular VALUES of the Kingdom (my list included things like peacemaking, justice, feeding the hungry, loving enemies, etc.). Then I would […]

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Accepted

This sermon, preached August 10, 2014, at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, VA. , celebrates the all inclusive nature of God’s love and grace.  Preached by Dr. Bill Nieporte, the sermon is based on Matthew 14:33-44  and is titled, simply:  Accepted What is our greatest fear? I saw that bumper sticker again recently.  Perhaps you’ve seen it […]

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Don’t Be A Slave Again

Galatians 5:1 – It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Paul has been discussing the difference of living under law and grace. Law (and its enforcement officers in religion) aim to hold people under thumb, forcing […]

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Enough

New sermon preached on July 6, 2014, by Dr. Bill Nieporte, at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, VA.  You can watch the video below.  A podcast can be downloaded at the church website:  Patterson Avenue Baptist Church Whenever you visit a blog, be kind to the blog publisher.  If you find a post helpful, inspirational, or […]

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Quick Life Lesson

Had a 94 year old woman in a nursing home tell me she just had a birthday, was 21 years old, and had run away from home to marry a gangster, with whom she was madly in love. LIFE LESSON: If you ever suffer from dementia, make it good.

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