Entries by Josh Rice

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With the End in Sight

Good morning church family, I’ll be turning fifty-years-old next month and the whole thing has me feeling a little like a kid who’s riding his bike down a steep hill for the first time. The quickening descent catches me by surprise. My stomach’s a little queasy and my knees want to knock. Applying the brakes […]

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Church for the Birds

Good morning church family, The crows didn’t caw as I crept near the opening in the woods. I saw them up there, high in the pine; perched like ushers at the cathedral door. But what a blessing they didn’t spy me. Had they set to squawking, earth’s finest choir might have flittered away. I feel […]

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Taking it to the Tombs

February 23, 2023 Matthew 8:28-34 And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have […]

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Finding Comfort in Correction

February 15, 2025 Jeremiah 21:1-10 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying, “Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord […]