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Devotion: Toward the Cross

Another one of my other favorite scenes in the movie “the Passion of the Christ” is when the Roman Soldiers throw Jesus’ cross down on the ground so that they can nail him to it.  Jesus is lying on the more »

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Devotion – Making All Things New

One of my favorite scenes in Mel Gibson’s “the Passion of the Christ” is when Jesus stumbles down near his mother under the weight of the enormous cross beam he is carrying on his back.  His back is torn to more »

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Devotion: Glory and Shame

Blaise Pascal, the Christian mathematician and philosopher, once described humanity as the glory and shame of the Universe.  How right he was!  First of all, the glory.  Psalm 139 says that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made.  We are more »

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Devotion: Missing from the Creed

In our worship Gatherings, we often say the Apostles’ Creed together.  It wasn’t written by the apostles, but by other church leaders a few hundred years after the apostles were gone to summarize the basic truths of the Bible.  It’s more »

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Devotion: A Circle of Guilt

In 1998, two construction workers died.  It’s tragic, but not unheard of.  Construction work can be dangerous.  However, it was how these guys died that makes it notable.  They fell to their death after cutting a circular hole in the more »

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