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2019-11-10T16:17:20-06:00

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THANKSGIVING AS IT WAS

Last updated on: November 10, 2019 at 4:17 pm By C. Don Jones

One congregation I served hosted a Thanksgiving meal every year for clients at our local food bank. This dinner was almost always done on the Saturday before Thanksgiving day. That one night the church would serve anywhere between two hundred to three hundred people in our area. It was a massive, exhausting, frustrating, and yet rewarding work. I recall one young lady who came in that night on her dinner break at a local Wendy’s. She told her coworkers that... Read more

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2019-11-06T18:48:14-06:00

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PATIENCE

Last updated on: November 6, 2019 at 6:48 pm By C. Don Jones

It happened again today. What was it? A lesson for me to ponder came to me today. A lesson that points out a true weakness I possess. I was leaving the grocery store parking lot when an elderly lady pushed her cart alongside the driver’s side of my pickup. I saw her mouth move. I rolled down my window. “I said, ‘you got in your car too fast.’ I was pushing my buggy up here as fast as I could... Read more

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2019-10-28T13:39:20-06:00

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Hungry

Last updated on: October 28, 2019 at 1:39 pm By C. Don Jones

One issue I have worked on most in the church is not salvation, theology, interpretation, or any of those. I have worked most in the issue of hunger. The Beatitudes, according to St. Matthew, say that those who “hunger and thirst for righteousness” shall be “filled.” (Matthew 5:6). St. Luke says that those who “are hungry now for you will be filled.” (Luke 6:21). A quick comparison of these words gives the reader an impression that the two are basically... Read more

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2019-09-29T16:53:02-06:00

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The Fear of the Ordinary

Last updated on: September 29, 2019 at 4:53 pm By C. Don Jones

“There was a man who lost an ax and thought the boy next door stole it. For the next few days he watched the boys movements and decided that his behavior and looks were like those of a guilty person. Later the man found the ax in a deserted area in the woods. When he got home his neighbors boy no longer looked like a thief. Whether someone is guilty or not depends on your opinion of them in the... Read more

2019-09-24T21:09:55-06:00

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The Promise of Generations

Last updated on: September 24, 2019 at 9:09 pm By C. Don Jones

I am privileged to have members of “the greatest generation” as my grandparents. I am even luckier to have been able to learn so much from them as I grew up. My grandparents on both sides lived until I became an adult. That benefits me in two important ways. I learned a lot from them. I was also able to discern whether or not I believed anything they were saying. I have known many people who were never able to... Read more

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2019-09-20T16:45:33-06:00

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Allow For The Children

Last updated on: September 20, 2019 at 4:45 pm By C. Don Jones

Garth Brooks is coming to town. It is funny how associations are made in one’s mind. When I hear the name of Garth Brooks, I think of one fan in particular. His name was Travis. He was a super fan. When his favorite singer came on the radio I could ask who it was. He would dance and yell out the name “Garth Brooks!” I could not let it go. “Who?” I asked. He would shout it again and give... Read more

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2019-09-03T20:54:46-06:00

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THE SON OF MAN?

Last updated on: September 3, 2019 at 8:54 pm By C. Don Jones

The Sunday School teacher will stand before his or her class and ask, “What do we mean when we call Jesus the Son of God?” The answer will be either “He is Divine” or less often “He had no human father.” The teacher may then ask, “What do we mean that Jesus is the Son of Man?” Often the answer will be given that “He is human.” And most of the time these answers are acceptable along with the affirmation... Read more

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2019-08-20T20:06:09-06:00

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AN INHERENT SICKNESS

Last updated on: August 20, 2019 at 8:06 pm By C. Don Jones

The church as an institution is an organizational structure that almost everyone believes they are against…until it does something they like. This is the reason we experience the constant hypocrisy of people within it. During the early months of 1999, I heard a female church official complain about the sickness of the world in which we live. Why? Because the U.S. Senate failed to remove Bill Clinton from office. A few years later a large fundamentalist church near where I... Read more

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2019-07-25T00:35:34-06:00

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WESLEY'S RULES FOR LIVING (3)

Last updated on: July 25, 2019 at 12:35 am By C. Don Jones

Attend Upon the Ordinances of God The eighteenth century was a time of fertile discovery and argument. It was an age of questions. And these questions threatened both the established answers and even the new ones being offered by other thinkers of the time. The major questions concerning knowledge and the nature of moral order always led to questions about how we live out the answers. Even the fledgling American Republic had these questions being answered in different ways by... Read more

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2019-07-16T19:08:20-06:00

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WESLEY'S RULES FOR LIVING (2)

Last updated on: July 16, 2019 at 7:08 pm By C. Don Jones

Do Good What does it mean to do good? That is an important question. Is the question aesthetic in nature? Does it mean to do good work? Or is it primarily ethical in nature? Does it mean to do good deeds? I believe the majority of people reading this blog would assume the exhortation to do good means to do good deeds. The Golden Rule as given in Matthew 7:12 is contextually about good deeds. “In everything do unto others... Read more

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