Entries by Josh Rice

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Pennies On The Dollar

August 26, 2018 Matthew 6:16-18 16 And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your […]

August 26, 2018 by
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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