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Missional Sermon Series #1
Luke 24: 50-53

The week after Christmas Tim and I visited Washington DC. As many tourists do while visiting DC we toured museums that are part of the Smithsonian Institute. I was in the Natural History Museum looking at some exhibit that I think had something to do with the rise in production of plastics and their use in the home when I was struck by the post war economic expansion of our country. The exhibit showed ...

Micah 6:1-8

This past week at our staff meeting Sid reminded us that we ought to invite the Presbyterians in our congregation to the Presbytery meeting in February where we will discuss an amendment passed by our General Assembly called Amendment 10- A, which would take out anything about sex in our ordination standards of our current Book of Order. Instead of worrying about what anyone is doing with their sex life, the focus for ordination would be on your submission ...

Matthew 3:13-17
Genesis 7:11-24

I clearly remember my baptism. I was four years old..

North Pole Baptist Church, after giving my life to Jesus…

The tank, the giraffe skirt, getting pushed under the water…

Taking communion for the first time afterwards.

Many people my age don’t remember their baptisms because if you were baptized as an infant, there were no video cameras to record the event until my children were babies and no one could afford them then.

In those days you didn’t need the camera, ...