Entries by Josh Rice

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Protestant Renovation

July 27, 2025 2 Kings 18:1-4 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. […]

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Operator Error

Good morning church family, When you begin reading a book, do you feel compelled to read its preface and introduction? For the first twenty-two years of my life, almost all my reading, cover to cover, was done as a matter of compulsion and so I must confess to having been annoyed by preliminaries that, in […]

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Orientation to Eternity

July 20, 2025 Revelation 21:22-27 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its […]

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The Passage of Time

Good morning church family, “A hundred years from now it won’t matter to anyone.” I often heard my dad say things like this throughout the years I spent under his roof and tutelage. Swept up in the fervor of another Washington Redskins postseason run, I would be positively crushed as the clock went to zeros […]

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Wisdom’s Prayer

July 13, 2025 Proverbs 30:1-9 The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out. Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I […]