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Practice What You Preach
Beth Braxton
August 30, 2009
James 1: 17–27
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Introduction to the scripture:
The book of James is known as a book of moral exhortations, the five chapters are a moral discourse for the early Christian community. Out of 108 verses in this small book of the Bible, there are 59 imperatives. These are noted as the moral imperatives of […]
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By Faith
MaryAnn McKibben Dana
July 26, 2009
Genesis 15:1-6
Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16
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Paul Jones remembers the day that he found faith—or perhaps I should say, the day faith found him.
By the time I heard the story, at a conference in Colorado, Paul Jones was a seminary trained theologian and ordained monk in the Trappist order. Over the course of his […]
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Becoming Disciples through Study
MaryAnn McKibben Dana
April 6, 2008
Burke Presbyterian Church
Deuteronomy 6:1-12
Picture if you will a cool day in early spring. The air is alive and humming with bees and insects but with something more than that too. There’s a celebration in the air. A celebration of hard times coming to an end—40 years in the wilderness—and something new […]
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