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  • Pastor’s Email Devotion, April 17, 2016

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    Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 4 April 17, 2016 “Take, eat; this is my body.”  (Matthew 26:26)              I was present for my first “rev up” this past Thursday.  Maybe you know what that is … I didn’t.  I had a funeral for a community member who was an avid biker … Harley’s…

  • Pastor’s Email College Devotion, April 10. 2016

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    Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Easter 3 April 10, 2016 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit.  (1 Corinthians 12:8)              On Saturday, we experienced what I believe was our “onion snow” for the year.  According to…

  • Pastor’s Email Devotion, April 10. 2016

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    Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 3 April 10, 2016 And the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I am making all things new.’ (Revelation 21:5)              It was “Chestnut Central” at church today … a day when we sang three hymns between our two traditional services that are what church people…

  • Pastor’s Email Devotion, April 3, 2016

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    Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 2 April 3, 2016 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’  (John 20:22) I take a deep breath … but it is interrupted by a bit of congestion in my lungs, and I end up in a coughing fit….…

  • Pastor’s Email College Devotion, April 3, 2016

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    Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Easter 2 April 3, 2016 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.  (John 3:8) Pneuma … wind ……

  • Pastor’s Email Devotion, Week of March 27th

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    Pastor’s Email Devotion & College Email Devotion The Week following Easter Sunday March 27, 2016 May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14)              Once upon a mountain top, three little trees stood…

  • Pastor’s Email College Devotion, March 20, 2016

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    Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week following Palm Sunday March 20, 2016 The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!  Hosanna in the highest heaven!”  (Matthew 21:9, NRSV)              Do you remember Palm…

  • Pastor’s Weekly Email Devotion, March 20, 2016

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    Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week following Palm Sunday March 20, 2016 The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!  Hosanna in the highest heaven!” (Matthew 21:9, RSV)              Sooty and black in February,…

  • Pastor’s Email College Devotion, March 13, 2016

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    Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Lent 5 March 13, 2016 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. (John 20:22, NRSV)              This afternoon, I was privileged to attend an Eagle Scout award ceremony at church for one of our youth group members who…

  • Pastor’s Email Devotion, March 13, 2016

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    Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Lent 5 March 13, 2016 May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which* the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14, RSV)              We had an interesting class in Crosspoints today.  The topic was “Living…