Entries by Josh Rice

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Is God Looking Forward to Heaven?

February 9, 2020  Revelation 21:22-27 22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 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. […]

February 9, 2020 by
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Worn Out- Our Sunday Roundtable- Session 2, Week 9

In 2004, I began pastoring a little city church in the Deep South. Some seventy years prior to my arrival, the fellowship there had survived a significant church split that hewed the church in two and left an open wound that still festered in the memories of some. The church had been planted in the […]

February 4, 2020 by
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Beware Over-the-counter Communion

February 2, 2020 1 Corinthians 11:27-32 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone […]

February 2, 2020 by
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Commanded to Share? – Our Sunday Roundtable- Session 2, Week 8

It’s not only God who loves a cheerful giver. What parent’s weary heart isn’t warmed when the kidslovingly share toys, treats, and the favored spot on the couch with each other? It’s wonderful; even ifwe only see it a little more regularly than we see Haley’s Comet.More often than not, parents are in the business […]

January 28, 2020 by
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Look Away

January 26, 2020 Isaiah 66:1-2 Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? 2 All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the […]

January 26, 2020 by