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Adventure: Week 11
Our focus text this week is Hebrews 12:1-3. The words of these verses resonate with nearly everyone because we all have experiences in life that make us think the writer of Hebrews knew about our lives...
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Adventure: Week 12
Maybe it was a while back when we were reading through Matthew and the Sermon on the Mount and you thought, “Did Jesus really say that?” Or perhaps you thought, “He couldn’t have meant what it sounds...
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Adventure: Week 13
Maybe you remember, early in the semester when we read through Acts, that Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2) reminded the Jewish people who heard him preach that “this Jesus whom you...
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Adventure: Week 14
According to some traditions, the early apostolic father Polycarp, received his name for the Greek phrase in verse 5 that is translated “much fruit.” Apparently those who knew him best believed that he...
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Adventure: Week 15
The short little epistle we know as 1 John is an incredible gift to us from God. In it we find encouragement to allow our hope to be real. That reality is rooted in our faith that Jesus came in …...
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Adventure: Week 16
In the Christian calendar, the beginning of new year begins with Advent – a time of waiting. In the civil calendar, we are nearly to mid-December and “waiting” is the last thing we have time to do....
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The Word and the World
It isn’t uncommon at the beginning of a new year to have conversations about “resolutions.” They often – in first-world contexts at least – have to do with how much weight we are going to lose; how...
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The Adventure of Reading
Whenever we meet someone new, we’re always trying to get a handle on the type of individual that is standing in front of us. For me, one of the aspects of people that I find most insightful is how they...
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Thrive
Setting goals can be really hard for me, because I’m such a big picture person. I think to myself “How could I possibly set a goal for an entire year? A year is so long! What if God wants to … Continue...
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Blessed Assurance
Growing up during the time that I did, if you were a church-going person, you learned the words to lots of hymns – at least “the first, second and final stanza” words. One of those hymns for me was...
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