Monthly Archives: March 2020

Luke 20:9-19 Charlie Brown is sitting on a bench.  He says, “Rats! What could be worse than a long walk home after losing the first game of the season?”  Then it happens as he walks home with bat in hand, it begins to pour down a hard rain on him. Charlie never won a baseball game in fifty years of the comic strip.   In fifty years, you can bank on that being true. Charles Schulz never let it happen…..

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John 5:31-47 We face all kinds of situations and tests in life.  How we respond to the tests and situations gives us a picture of what kind of person we are.   Peppermint Patty and Marcie are taking a test.  Patty is talking to herself, “True! False! True! Maybe!  Who knows? Why Not? Could be! True again. Absolutely false!  A sure thing! Now and then! Who cares? True again! If the Good Lord is willing and the creeks don’t rise!”   At…..

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Matthew 12:38-48 Woven into the history of the human family and the church are these certain truths.  Realism is replaced with ‘Let’s Pretend’ that we know what is real for us. Even this happens in God’s church.  We pretend to believe in the God we meet in the Bible, but our actions say that we have moved far away from the teachings in God’s word. In the scriptures we see a group of religious leaders living in the land of…..

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Matthew 9:18-26 The main purpose of the Christian Church is to spread the Good News of life by faith in Jesus Christ.  We can be born into a new life. Life is filled with distractions and busy work. Look at your clock of life and see what has, and is, consuming most of the time in your life.  This is true whatever age you are. This can be true for all people, even for older adults whose clocks of life…..

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