Sermon: Colossians 1:24-29 “Marching Orders”

I finished my series on Colossians yesterday.  It’s been a great verse-by-verse expository series– something I’m going to try to do more often.  I’ve really gained a deeper appreciation for the supremacy of Christ through this series.
Here’s the next in the series.  Again, rough draft, sorry for any typos, etc.

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Sermon: Colossians 1:21-23 “Enemy, AWOL, or Enlisted?”

 Here is another in my series on Colossians.  This one points out that there is no middle ground when it comes to God: you are either on His side or not.  It also explores the terminology of us being “enemies of God”.  I thought it was a pretty powerful sermon.
Standard disclaimer: this is the first [...]

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The Sweet Sound of Democracy

Our church foyer is being used as a polling place in today’s election.  That means that right outside my door there have been about 40 people at any given time chattering, joking, fussing, and laughing.  It’s like working in the middle of a coffee shop.  It’s been great.
I know that this is kind of a [...]

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Thank God for that Blob of Jelly

You know, one of the reasons that I’ve always discounted the idea of evolution is the sheer impossibility of complex organs developing simply by chance and natural selection. Take the eye, for example. It is simply too complex to be explain by random mutation.
Well, today I read in my local paper that scientists [...]

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