Entries by Josh Rice

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Purgatory

October 27, 2024 2 Samuel 12:15b – 23 And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick. David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. And the elders of his house stood beside him, […]

October 27, 2024 by
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Homework for Tomorrow

Good evening church family, Lisa and I homeschool our three children. Every year we purchase a curriculum for each of them and the kids work their way through it from September to early June. All the traditional subjects are studied, with a course on the Bible added in. In our little one-room-schoolhouse, Lisa does the […]

October 26, 2024 by
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Trading Up

October 20, 2024 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on […]

October 20, 2024 by
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Operator

Good morning church family, “I’m sorry,” the disembodied voice on the other end of the line begins, “but the person you are trying to reach has a voicemail box that has not been set up yet. Please try again later. Goodbye.” When she’s done giving me the bad news – and it’s always a woman’s […]

October 19, 2024 by
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Taking the Roof Off of this Thing

October 13, 2024 Genesis 8:6-12 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had […]

October 13, 2024 by