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Mark 9:30-37 Sermon Commentary

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Questions to Ponder / Issues to Address: It’s quite a picture: Jesus is walking up ahead of his disciples.  Outwardly Jesus is watching the path ahead, minding the curves in the road and stepping over potholes.  Inwardly the eyes of his heart are on the cross and on all that was now just ahead of…

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Psalm 54 Sermon Commentary

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Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider Psalm 54 is a prayer for God’s deliverance from enemies who wish to harm or maybe even kill the poet.  Perhaps not surprisingly, then, it also contains a strong tone of lament over enemies’ mistreatment of the poet.  This lends Psalm 54 an air of honesty that sometimes seems…

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James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a Sermon Commentary

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Comments and Observations There are two ways to read this text.  First, it might be a development of the theme of wisdom raised in James 1:5, then dropped for three chapters, and now revisited for further explanation.  In other words, this is one more isolated bit of instruction in a long string of pearls randomly…

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Proverbs 31:10-31 Sermon Commentary

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Comments and Observations: What are we to make of this conclusion to Proverbs?  For a long time some women saw it as a kind of blueprint for life and so were honored if they could be seen as fitting this profile of the “wife of noble character.” Not surprisingly, more recent times have witnessed other…

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