Entries by Josh Rice

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The Receipts

Good morning church family, What if by some inexplicable act of cosmic happenstance, the length of a day increased from twenty-four to thirty-six hours? Someone bumped the galactic game board, let’s say, and all the universe’s pieces went pell-mell; expanding solar systems and redrawing constellations. What do you imagine we’d do with all the extra […]

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A Deafening Silence

September 1, 2024 1 Kings 18:16-40 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah. When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned […]

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Big Talk

Good afternoon church family, Why is small talk so much easier to make than big talk? I don’t know exactly but it’s probably for much the same reasons that we find sharing an elevator with someone to be easier than sharing an apartment or why giving money to the needy to be easier than giving […]

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Taking the Stairs

August 25, 2024 Galatians 5:7-12 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the […]

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Park Bench Ph.D.

Good morning church family, In the summer of 1996, between my junior and senior years in college, I bought my first car. Mrs. Sue Rich, a good friend of my grandmother’s, was selling her 1983 Chevrolet Citation for seven-hundred-dollars. I hadn’t planned on buying a car before I graduated. I needed nearly every penny of […]