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Monday Night Bowling

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Tonight I returned to bowling. I had no idea what to expect. Would it be a waste of my time? The first game I bowled a 121. Not quite my average of 128 but close. The next game things really came together as I bowled a turkey (three strikes in a row) and finished with [...]

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Third Week of Advent

Posted in Lectionary, tagged on December 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

The scriptures for this coming week are:Zephaniah 3:14-20; Isaiah 12:2-6; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18 I’ll probably be preaching from the Zephaniah passage or Isaiah. We will be looking at the idea that Advent is a season of salvation. I may even work in Philippians and Luke into the sermon. As I take a first look [...]

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Oh Christmas Tree

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on December 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

One of our family traditions is to decorate the Christmas tree together. If you look at the previous post, you’ll see that almost changed. We do have an artificial tree and I am responsible for putting on all the lights. We have three 100 light sets of regular lights. There is a story to those [...]

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Sunday Thoughts

Posted in Sunday Thoughts on December 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

While today did not have the WOW! factor of the past few Sundays, it was still a good day. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the WOW! factor; to look for the next spiritual high. I know that I have to guard against that. Our theme for the Second Sunday of Advent was [...]

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Advent: A Season of Peace and Comfort

Posted in Advent, Comfort, Peace on December 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

When we typically think of the Christmas story we usually come up with the same characters year after year, there’s the angel and Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus, the shepherds, the angels, the wise men, even Herod. We often even remember Elizabeth, but often we forget about, John the Baptist and even more the part [...]

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A Season of Comfort and Peace

Posted in Lectionary, tagged on December 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Today, I preached my sermon from Zechariah’s prophesy in Luke 1. Check it out here.

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Interesting Thought

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on December 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Last evening, my wife and I invited the high school boys from our church’s youth group to our house for some pizza and foosball. They even enjoyed our vintage Super Nintendo. We had a great time for an hour or so before, we went over to church. As we were eating pizza, one of the [...]

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Sermon Starter – Advent Week 2

Posted in Lectionary, tagged on December 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Many times when we think of Christ’s birth, we think of Mary and Joseph and (obviously) the baby Jesus, the shepherds, the angels, the wise men, Herod. But we forget to go back a little earlier in Luke’s account and pick up the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth. They were the parents of John the [...]

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A Day Off

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on December 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday, I took a day off; a real day off. Several on my leadership team suggested it. It was great. Pam and I spent the morning together. In the afternoon, I spent some time making Christmas gifts. When the children got home we celebrated Anna’s 16th birthday. I even took the night off from bowling. [...]

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Second Week of Advent

Posted in Lectionary, tagged on December 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Here are the scripture for this week’s meditation: Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6

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