Month: April 2011

  • Matthew 21:1-17

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    Today’s Reading is Matthew 21:1-17. I was in the nice position to be able to listen to a sermon of my wife preaching at my church. She made a very nice point: Cheering for Jesus in good times is easy. But when the going gets rough we are pretty much like those people that were…

  • Copy Umlauts

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    Your browser does not support iframes. To all you Umlaut lovers out there. CopyPasteCharacter is a pretty easy way to, well, copy and paste characters that are not immediately available on your keyboard. Recommended by OpenForum.

  • John 11:45-12:11

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    Today’s Reading is John 11:45-12:11. I preached about it last March. Please refer to my sermon.

  • John 11:1-44

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    Today’s Reading is John 11:1-44. The shortest verse in many English language Bibles is about Jesus mourning the death of his friend Lazarus: “Jesus wept.” Wikipedia knows significance has been attributed to this phrase for a number of reasons, including the following: * Weeping demonstrates that Christ was indeed true man, with real bodily functions…

  • John 7:25-52

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    Today’s Reading is John 7:25-52. The Johannine community produced this gospel in the 90s in Ephesus. That is four generations and one continent away from where it iwas supposed to be set. Now they didn’t know to much about who Pharisees were or what Jesus’ place in Judaism was. Hear Ed Parish Sanders about how…