On this page the following entries were made in the “August, 2008” time-frame.
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Spiritual Parkour
MaryAnn McKibben Dana
August 24, 2008
Mark 5:21-35
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Technology enables us to multitask like never before. Teens do homework while checking e-mail and listening to an iPod. Parents cook dinner while watching the news and helping kids with homework. And pastors check voice mail while driving from a presbytery meeting to a hospital visit.
All of this multitasking takes […]
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Exposing the Boundaries
Beth Braxton
August 17, 2008
Matthew 15:21-28
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Okay, we have here two main characters in this pericope and each is “pushing the envelope!”
This is NOT our image of Jesus — Jesus, the man of compassion for the sick and lame, the man caring for the children, the man profound and compelling in his speech. What happened to nice, […]
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Saved by Doubt
Deryl Fleming
August 10, 2008
Matthew 14:22-23
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Miraculous healing stories are one thing. Walking on water is quite another. Many of us have seen, heard or experienced healing that was nothing short of miraculous. And we all know about mind/body connections and have witnessed mind over matter happenings. Walking on water is something else. […]
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Miracles of Compassion
Deryl Fleming
August 3, 2008
Matthew 14: 13-21
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Once upon a Town by syndicated columnist Bob Greene is an amazing story that began on Christmas day 1941 and continued until eight months after World War II ended in the Spring of 1946. Soldiers from everywhere in America came through North Platte, Nebraska on troop trains, en route to […]
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