Entries by Josh Rice

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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
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Of Prayer and Fine Wine

January 19, 2020 Luke 18:1-8 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to […]

January 19, 2020 by