Tag: Love
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Choosing the Better Part
My sermon from this past Sunday. The text was Luke 10:38-42 Having people over is very enjoyable, but it can also be a lot of work. The apartment has to be cleaned, and depending how long people are staying, a guest room may have to be prepared, even if it is a make-shift room. food…
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Turning Faces
Sermon from this past Sunday. Text was Luke 9:51-62 This passage contains one of the most significant lines in the entire Gospel of Luke. It is pretty well hidden, though, you may not have recognized it. “He set his face to go to Jerusalem.” This is how the New Revised Standard Version reads. The New…
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Hump Day Hymns: O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give the back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. O Light that followest all my way, I yield my flickering torch to Thee; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That…
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The Simplest and Most Difficult Commandment
Although we are in the Fifth Sunday after the resurrection, our gospel passage today comes from shortly before Jesus’ betrayal and execution. Jesus and the disciples are gathered together in an upper room that they rented to spend some time together and to observe the Passover. During this time, Jesus took of his outer robe (like someone…
Matthew van Maastricht 