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07.12.09
Chosen | Ephesians 1:1-13
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
"Hardcore," written and directed by Paul Schrader, is a gritty-raw-unsettling-story about a father searching for his daughter who is lost in the lurid darkness of pornography and prostitution in southern California. I wouldn't have paid ...
07.05.09
Traveling Light | Mark 6:1-13
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
I am going to Israel in August. I was selected to be part of the first "Holy Land Pastoral Renewal Pilgrimage" sponsored and funded by Austin Seminary. For 18 days, with 19 other pastors from a variety of Christian traditions, we will ...
06.28.09
Laughing at Jesus | Mark 5:21-43
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
He did what any father would do.
When she was a toddler he loved that moment after her bath when she would be all wrapped up in a towel and crawl up in his lap for a story and she smelled like Eden before the fall.
06.14.09
Side with the Seeds | Mark 4:26-34
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
In this line of work it is easy to get jaded and cynical.
Oh, you see the beautiful moments of babies and baptisms and you get to know the stories of drunks who got sober and the bruised who found some healing, but you also get a good dose of ...
06.07.09
Nick at Night | John 3:1-17
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
Maybe Nicodemus just couldn't sleep.
Nicodemus was tossing and turning on his matt because he just couldn't put it together. He was a respected religious scholar. He had been to the best schools and studied with the best professors. He had risen ...
05.10.09
Verdant Vines | John 15:1-8
Roger Nelson
Roger Nelson
In the late 1930s a doctor at Harvard was discouraged by all the research done with sick people that divided the body into symptoms and diseases and viewed it through the lenses of a hundred specialized microscopes but that