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The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost October 29, 2017 Isaiah 25:6-9 The LORD’s Holy Mountain!   On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines.  On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers […]

The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 22, 2017 Isaiah 5:1-7 Live A Fruitful Life!     I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard:  My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.  He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines.  He built a watchtower in […]

The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost October 15, 2017 1 John 2:15-17 Thank God for Life!     Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,   On August 24, 1992 Hurricane Andrew literally roared through the area where I was living.  I had sent Brenda and the kids to Orland to keep them safe while I stayed behind.  I knew that a […]

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost October 8, 2017 Isaiah 55:6-9 Seek the LORD!   Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.   Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.  Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he […]

The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost October 1, 2017 Genesis 50:15-21 The Bigger Picture     When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?”  So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he […]