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29,713 total views What is more difficult, to speak for eight hours or to listen for eight hours? What is more difficult, to speak for eight hours without eating or drinking, or to listen, seated for eight hours without eating or drinking? I think it is understandable that the speaker has a more tiring job than
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33,587 total views Nowadays, we call leprosy Hansen’s disease. In ancient Israel, leprosy was a general term for all sicknesses of the skin. Whether it was pimples, acne, eczema, leprosy, psoriasis, or buni, all of those skin diseases were considered leprosy. Anything that is a blemish on the skin was considered leprosy. Here was a leper.
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33,992 total views We are here to remember what Jesus did and give us. What did Jesus give us? Jesus gave us freedom. It is good to celebrate freedom in this Church that was built to remember the freedom we won in 1986. Jesus gave us freedom not only from enslavement to human masters but He
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12,569 total views Let us visualize this. There is a criminal—a woman caught in adultery. There are accusers and they are holding rocks to stone the woman. Figuratively and even literally, they have engraved the sin of the woman on the stone. We know how heavy a stone is. It is solid. We know how hard
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8,959 total views We all do acts of kindness every day, but there are different acts of kindness. The first act of kindness is an act of kindness for ten seconds that expects repayment for a lifetime. We do an act of kindness and we expect to be thanked. We do an act of kindness and
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7,902 total views We know the story of Job. He lost his children. He lost his property. He lost his herd of cows. He lost his beasts. He lost his house. He even lost his health. His whole body was covered with sores. He really suffered. Two days ago, we heard Job praying and asking God
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7,576 total views The two simple parables remind us of two very simple, familiar lessons. The first lesson is that everything comes from God. The second lesson is that everything must return to God. We know that. We are reminded of that when somebody is born. We are reminded of that when somebody dies. Everything comes
