Tag: practice
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Music
The most remarkable thing that happened today didn’t happen at church, although it happened in a church. VOICES of Kentuckiana practices in the basement of Central Presbyterian Church. This Sunday the composer of one of the songs in the spring concert, Harry Pickens, came to rehearsal to listen to the progress we were making on […]
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Study Notes – 2 John 4-11
For Sunday, January 6 we’re studying two somewhat similarly-themed texts: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 and 2 John 4-11. It seemed like a good idea to focus on one at a time. Notes on 2 Thessalonians are in a separate post. Here are my notes on the verses from 2 John: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: The very short […]
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First Sunday in Advent
[A sermon, “Something to Know By Heart,” delivered this morning at a small church in southern Indiana; the main text is Deuteronomy 6:1-9; also refers to Luke 21:34-36] Today, as we know, is the First Sunday in Advent. Here is what the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship says about the season of Advent: ‘Advent’ means […]
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An Ayah on Guidance
MuslimPro’s verse of the day from the Qur’an was Surah 28, Al-Qasas, (The Story or The Narrative) 56. This is how it reads in Pickthall’s translation: Lo! thou (O Muhammad) guidest not whom thou lovest, but Allah guideth whom He will. And He is Best Aware of those who walk aright. It struck me that […]
Matters of Interpretation 