Category Archives: Messages

“Stay”

Ascension Sunday   Title: “Stay!” Text: John 17: 11And now I am no longer in the world,….   Friendswood Lumber and Hardware was the first real job I ever had.  Gene Greathouse ran the business, ordering hardware and doing “take … Continue reading

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Disturbed Disciples

  Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well-pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.   Disturb us Lord, when with … Continue reading

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Good Shepherd

  There is a presentation of Jesus found in the longer biblical context of Jesus’ healing the man born blind that has become iconic.  The event itself ignited a major confrontation between the man and the religious and political shepherds … Continue reading

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The Mark of Barnabas

In his recent book called UnChristian; What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity, David Kinnaman presents the results of three-years of statistical research and extensive interviews on how an overwhelming percentage of sixteen to twenty-nine year olds view the … Continue reading

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Easter Stories

Easter 2009 Conditions in our world may enable some of us to hear the Easter story in a new way this year. Many have had carefully tucked away retirement funds evaporate, others have experienced the loss of a treasured dream … Continue reading

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Two Messages

Pastor’s Page this week contains two messages.  The first was prepared by Keith Sellers and shared on in Meeting for Worship on March 29.  The second is Nick Block’s Palm Sunday meditation.

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Two Messages

Like the tattoos I spoke about with the kids, scars are a permanent mark.  I have an elderly friend named Joe who carries a long scar on his left thumb.  We worked as a forester on the mountains of Northern … Continue reading

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Two Messages

What follows are two Sunday messages the first shared in Meeting for Worship on March 29 by Keith Sellers and the second was shared by Nick Block on April 5.

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Staring at Death – Finding Life

They complained against God that their salvation from Egypt had put them in a place with no real food, inadequate water and the food they did have, Manna from heaven, was detestable. What ingratitude!  As a consequence they found themselves … Continue reading

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My Father’s House

Warner Sallman’s The Head of Christ (1940) portraying Jesus with flowing blond hair and saccharine blue eyes staring into space has been estimated to have been reproduced some 500 million times. The Jesus he offers us is clean, safe, passive, … Continue reading

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