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Showing posts with label Helping others. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Helping others. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Sermon Video: All Kinds of Prayers- Ephesians 6:18-23

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To close his letter to the church at Ephesus, the Apostle Paul encourages them to bring, "all kinds of prayers and requests" to Go...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Sermon Video: Serving Wholeheartedly in Tough Situation - Ephesians 6:5-9

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  The last group to be addressed by Paul after wives, husbands, fathers, and children, are slaves and masters.  The message that Paul has fo...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Sermon Video: The Church that is Safe - Ephesians 4:14-16

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  We live in a world that is obsessed with safety.  We are more aware of the dangers that exist than our forebearers, and spend more time tr...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Sermon Video: Equipping his people for works of service - Ephesians 4:7-13

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How does a Church grow?  In other words, what builds up the body of Christ? The answer from the Apostle Paul is strikingly simple: acts of s...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Sermon Video: God has a plan for each one of us - Ephesians 2:10

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Ephesians 2:8-9 is an amazing ode to God's plan to save those who trust in Christ by grace.  However, God's plan for his people does...
Friday, March 28, 2025

The Church in Franklin (Venango County) PA: How are we doing? - What serving here more than a decade has shown me.

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  My wife Nicole and I moved to Franklin, PA in January of 2012.  I'm not a native Pennsylvanian, but we've invested our lives in th...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

My one powerful conversation with Tony Campolo

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  Today many of my friends and collogues in ministry are sharing wonderful stories of their many interactions over the decades with American...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

John MacArthur's denial of the existence of mental illness is shameful, harmful, and outright false

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  Beth Moore, doctor criticize John MacArthur for claiming mental illness isn’t real - by Leonardo Blair, Christianpost.com ‘There’s no such...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022

My thoughts featured by the Project on Rural Ministry (of Grove City College)

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Recently I was asked by Pastor Charlie Cotherman if there was something about rural ministry that I might write for the Project on Rural Min...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

There have been too many days like today...

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On days like today, there have been too many, far too many, days like today... I kissed my daughter as the school bus pulled up, we hugged e...
Friday, April 29, 2022

"Satan controlling the Church"? Marjorie Taylor Greene's dangerous view of Catholic Relief Services assistance to migrants

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  They really need to stop pretending to be theologians.  Politicians who claim to know the will of God are not only a danger to the Church ...
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Monday, February 1, 2021

Sermon Video: Tradition Needs Integrity - Mark 7:9-13

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 Having reprimanded the religious leadership of Judaism for clinging to tradition without sincerity, now Jesus focuses upon one example of a...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Sermon Video: Five loaves and two fish - Mark 6:30-44

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 Instead of finding rest in a solitary place, Jesus and the disciples are met with a large crowd.  Jesus has compassion on them and teaches ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

When is governmental action morally justified? The morality of COVID-19 responses to protect less than 1%.

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This is a serious question, I'm actually curious about what you would answer: Given that as of today, 10/13/20, there have been at least...
Friday, July 31, 2020

How should Christians act during a pandemic? - Wisdom from Martin Luther's experience with the Plague

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The response of American Christians to the COVID-19 pandemic has run the gamut from faithful adherence to CDC guidelines, to open and proud ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Sermon Video: If the Lord permits: Making Plans - 1 Corinthians 16:1-9

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2020 has been, thus far, to say the least, a time of changed plans. First the pandemic cancelled things, rearranged things, and left us won...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Sermon Video: Stand firm if you're doing the Lord's work - 1 Corinthians 15:58

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As the culmination of his message about the triumph of Jesus over sin and death, and the future resurrection that awaits all those who belie...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

"You do you, I'll do me" - Quintessentially American, but incompatible with the Judeo-Christian worldview

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If you're like me, this meme below has floated through your Facebook feed at some point since the pandemic hit America.  It presents a b...