On a friend’s Starbucks cup recently there was a great quote about heaven that I’m planning to use in Sunday’s sermon. Starbucks maintains a collection on their website of their recent coffee cup quotes. I waded through a few of them this morning and found three extra-good ones about children:
“Do not kiss your [...]

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Michael Vick’s statement:  Apology or spin?  We deal in repentance and forgiveness in church.  So what makes contrition genuine?  From Fox Sports.
Mother Teresa’s dark nights of the soul.  A new book of Mother Teresa’s personal letters reveals a woman of strong faith who, nevertheless, had profound feelings of disconnection from Jesus.  From Christianity Today.
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Sermon #3 - September 2, 2007
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Do you treat the people around you like dogs?
Don’t think Michael Vick.  Think of the old lady down the street with 3-4 yapping admirers nipping at her heels.
Marshall Goldsmith, in What Got You Here Won’t Get You There,  says that most of us have two contradictory tendencies:  1)  We say we hate suck-ups.  2) We [...]

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