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10.12.08
How Did You Get In? | Matthew 22:1-14
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
This is one of those texts that I'd like to slide by or skirt around.
This is one of those texts that I'd like to gloss over or glide past.
But, this is one of those texts of which Barbara Brown Taylor writes:
10.05.08
God's Dream | Micah 4:2-7
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
In 1995 Dr. Cornelius Plantinga turned a line from a popular movie into the title for a celebrated book about sin. The line is lifted from "The Grand Canyon." Early in the movie a tow truck driver, played by Danny Glover, intervenes in a ...
09.28.08
Water From A Rock | Exodus 17:1-7
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
I remember it in my grandmother's bathroom. My grandmother ~ Winifred Amelia Smith, a matronly and pious British woman, who poured tea at the end of the table as if she were the Queen Mum ~ kept a copy of "Streams in the Desert" in the ...
09.21.08
Enough for the Day | Exodus 16:1-15
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
In the great American fable, "Forrest Gump" there is an altogether delightful moment when Bubba recounts the many ways to prepare shrimp:
.... shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. ...
09.14.08
Singing Liberation | Exodus 15:1-20
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
Do you have any songs that even just the first few bars take you back to some other place and some other time?
09.07.08
Liberation's Lamb | Exodus 12:1-14
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
William Young, the child of missionary parents, was raised in the hills of New Guinea. As he describes it, his relationship with his father was strained and he suffered great loss as a child and young adult.