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Title: Praying alone
Date: October 27, 2007r 27, 2007English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVIzbrano poglavje ne obstaja!WP-Bible plugin
Texts: Luke 18:9-14Luke 18:9-14English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVA Pharisee and a Tax Collector

9 Jesus told a story to some people who thought they were better than others and who looked down on everyone else:

10 Two men went [...]

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Recently a couple of articles, one about DNA pioneer Dr. Watson getting suspended for tying race and intelligence together and another about renewed opposition to school integration, are evidence that “race” as a valid concept is alive and well. So, it seems worth saying what’s been said may times before: race is a myth, [...]

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Here’s my sermon from this past Sunday. I changed the name of the person at the end because I didn’t get permission to mention him. I hope he doesn’t mind.
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Title: Itching ears
Date: 10.21.07
Texts: Ps 119:97-104Ps 119:97-104English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEV97 I deeply love your Law!

98 Your [...]

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In a few days we’re hosting the annual faith and race conference at Quest. One of the ways I’m involved is in looking at how a few stories in Scripture relate to that theme. As I’ve been preparing it’s struck me just how often the issue of ethnicity comes up—there’s hardly a [...]

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Title: Hungry
Date; October 7, 2007r 7, 2007English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVHTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Texts: Lamentations 1:1-6, 3:19-26Lamentations 1:1-6, 3:19-26English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEV Lonely Jerusalem

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It’s been ages (in blogging terms anyway) since writing anything here. Several reasons: didn’t have much to say, moved into a new house, summer is short enough in Seattle without spending it inside, etc. But the big reason is that the blog had just started to feel cluttered and old. The theme [...]

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Lamentations… It’s a difficult piece of the Bible to preach. But in my preparation, I read a bit of Kathleen M. O’Connor’s book, Lamentations and the Tears of the World (2002). I think it’s a must read for anyone trying to hear how the gospel breaks through that text.  Below is a striking passage that [...]

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