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
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Coming Home

Good morning church family, “Hey Mom,” Justin said rather loudly; looking into the kitchen where his mother was running water in the sink and cleaning the countertops. “Do you know where the remote control for the TV is?” “Look on top of the cabinet or maybe next to the recliner,” his mother replied; only looking […]

December 28, 2024 by