Entries by Josh Rice

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Our Sunday Roundtable- Week 13

“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”  Samuel Butler Ever since its release in October of 1971, John Lennon’s Imagine has been a lightning rod for the insecurities and indignations of the faithful.  For just as long, the song has remained the wistful ballad of […]

August 23, 2018 by
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Fit For The Thicket

August 19, 2018 Mark 1:12-13 12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

August 19, 2018 by
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Our Sunday Roundtable- Week 12

Much of history is a record of what’s done with sledgehammers. Men and women, frustrated with the nature and structure of things, cock back the wrecking ball and let it swing; smashing the established order to pieces. Boundary lines are moved, laws rewritten, statues toppled, books burned, and temples leveled for the rebuild. What are […]

August 16, 2018 by
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Dreams of the Exiled

August 12, 2018 Revelation 22:1-5 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds […]

August 12, 2018 by
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Our Sunday Roundtable- Week 11

There’s an old Yiddish proverb that asks, “If I try to be like him, who will be like me?”  In this question is an affirmation of the important uniqueness of everyone and everything.  To be created is to be cast by the Great Director to play a part in His great play.  Never be another’s […]

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