Entries by Josh Rice

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The Castle Guard

Good morning church family, Imagine that your body is a castle and your spirit the precious life within. Imagine your castle’s treasury to be so rich in peace and joy, that you must make a fortress of yourself lest the pillaging barbarians pour in. Now scan the perimeter of your castle walls. Where are its […]

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What God Was Thinking

September 15, 2024 Matthew 10:34-39 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies […]

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A Hymn

Good morning church family, Stu and Sidney couldn’t stand each other. Some of the disdain was really quite natural. Stu was the kind of guy who would look askance at a man who didn’t have a little dirt under his nails or who used words like “askance”. He drank beer, drove an old stoved-up pickup […]

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A Clerestory for Our Community

September 8, 2024 Psalm 134 Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands to the holy placeand bless the Lord! May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!

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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 […]