Entries by Josh Rice

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The Cologne of Christ

Good morning church family, To a twelve-year-old boy like Ethan Carmichael, a $25 gift card to Macy’s was about as valuable as a $25 gift card to the grocery store, the power company, or the water and sewer department. To Ethan, Macy’s was a store you walked through to get to the food court and […]

January 11, 2025 by
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A Fair Trial

January 5, 2025 Luke 18:1-8 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and […]

January 5, 2025 by
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Plunged to Victory

I opened my heart to Jesus five days after my eleventh birthday. Prior to that, Jesus had been in my life but only as a character in stories read to me at bedtime or as an image frozen in the glowing stained glass windows that surrounded me on Sunday mornings or as an invisible spirit-person […]

January 4, 2025 by