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Showing posts with label Mustard Seed Missions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mustard Seed Missions. Show all posts
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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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Is my role in the fight against the Torah Clubs (FFOZ) personal? Absolutely, and it should be, this is why.

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  The Mustard Seed Mission committee accepting an award for Outstanding Service from Venango County Human Services in 2012.  This was our te...
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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...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Did God answer Jesus' prayer for Unity among his followers? - John 17

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  A memento for the once dominant multi-clergy trivia team created by my wife Nicole (our one non-clergy member on the team,  but representi...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

My thirty year journey away from Rush Limbaugh

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  As a public persona, Rush Limbaugh changed very little in the last thirty years, his philosophy regarding government, animosity toward pol...
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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, January 21, 2020

Sermon Video: Work together for the truth - 3 John 1-8

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Continuing the themes from 2 John, the Apostle commends a leader from a church that he is connected with named Gaius for his devotion to the...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Local newspapers are dying: to the detriment of education, democracy, and the Church

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My first job was delivering the Grand Rapids Press {Grand Rapids, MI}.  Five days a week I delivered about 16 papers after school, on Saturd...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Homelessness is a real issue in Venango County

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At last month's zoning board meeting in Oil City, which ended in the decision being tabled until this month, a claim was made by one off...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Strong Church support shown for local homeless shelter

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Last night's zoning board meeting in Oil City highlighted the significant support being given to Emmaus Haven by the local Church, as ev...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

We need a homeless shelter, and the Church needs to support it

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There is an article in today's News Herald/Derrick newspaper about the upcoming zoning hearing in Oil City regarding the transformatio...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Pastoral ministry, Apologetics, and Optimism for the Church

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One of the things that I sometimes do while working at my desk during the week is listen to Dr. James White's online program The Diving ...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Help that really helps people

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                “Give a man a fish, you’ll feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, and you’ll feed him for a lifetime.”  As someone who ha...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

"No Earthly Good", in defense of Ecumenism

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I recently experienced my first significant resistance to our efforts through Mustard Seed Missions to work ecumenically to help the needy....
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Who is responsible for the poor?

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Whose responsibility is it to help the poor, the government or the Church?  Prior to the Industrial Revolution the answer was the Church by...