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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
In 1945 Lewis would conclude his space trilogy closing out the tale of Ransom begin with Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. Despite the fact that the reviews of this book were the weakest of the three I think that I enjoyed this one the most.
Although Ransom does ...
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
In just a few short weeks (3 to be exact) we will resume our two year journey through the Bible. The format will remain the same:
Sunday Morning Class will consist of an overview of that week's book.
Our Sermon time will continue the "Scarlet Thread" series. Throughout the NT we will ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
In this on-going series of getting to know the preacher, I thought I would share some more minute information about yours truly:
My first name is Leslie. No, I don't know what my parents were thinking.
My dad founded a Christian school in Little Rock. I graduated from that school, Central Arkansas ...
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
From a year of studying the Old Testament:
We often view God as Creator in the past tense. I'm afraid that we approach those initial 6 days as the totality of His creating. But there is so much that He is still doing.
I'm struck by the cyclization of the Israelite people: ...
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
For what it is worth, here is a tentative schedule for what I will be teaching and preaching. Wednesday night will continue to be a period of worship with a devotional thought.
Sunday Morning Class—Jewish Culture in the Time of Jesus
June 4—Introduction
June 11—Second Temple Judaism
June 18—Hellenism
June 25—The Maccabaean Rebellion
July 2—Procurators
July 9—The ...
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
Everywhere you turn today there are allegations and hints of improprieties. It seems that somewhere along the line we turned into a society that produces a precipitous amount of scandal.
Here is just a partial list of the things in recent months that have fallen under the mantle of suspicion and ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
--Robert Robinson (Come, Thou Fount of ...
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
I have a phrase that I repeat over and over again. I don't know where I got it. I am assuming that it is just my own quote that I have concocted over the last 18 months of refining my theology. However, I do not want to be so arrogant ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
I consider myself to be a grace-oriented person. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt and seek to understand where they are coming from. I am quick to forgive and I rarely hold grudges. When I do hold grudges, I feel sick inside.
Likewise, I rail against the ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
Sometime during my elementary school years I was given the nickname "Scooter." Not very inventive, just an extension of my name. Kids in grade school called me by that moniker all the time.
When I hit seventh grade I moved to the main high school campus. One Friday after school we ...
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