Wednesday Morning Bible Study – Spring (2) 2021
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Wednesday Morning Bible Study – Spring (2) 2021

First, Second, and Third John The New Testament canon includes three books attributed to someone named John.  These three very brief documents are sometimes referred to as letters or epistles.   The first reads like a sermon or essay.  The other two are more like memoranda.  They appear to have been composed early in the second…

Homily by Bruce Johnson 17 January 2021
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Homily by Bruce Johnson 17 January 2021

Listening for the Voice of God         The writers of the Old Testament included quite a few stories about a prophet named Samuel.   One of those stories is our lectionary reading for today.  The setting for this story is in a place called Shiloh.  Long before Solomon built his famous temple in Jerusalem there were…

Wednesday Morning Bible Study – Oct-Nov 2020
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Wednesday Morning Bible Study – Oct-Nov 2020

     The Gospel of John includes several collections of the sayings of Jesus that are not found in the other three gospels.  Some of these sayings are said to be from his public teaching but the audience for most of them consists exclusively of his inner circle of disciples.      As we revisit these familiar…

Wednesday Morning Bible Study – Fall 2020
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Wednesday Morning Bible Study – Fall 2020

     After several years of traveling from synagogue to synagogue in the part of the world we know as Greece and Turkey, the Apostle Paul was planning a preaching mission in Rome, the imperial capitol.  He had received many reports of the growing Christian community in that city.  Like all the other early Christian communities,…

Presentation by Bruce Johnson 19 July 2020
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Presentation by Bruce Johnson 19 July 2020

Jacob, the Amazing Dreamer      Today’s Old Testament reading is one of the stories of Abraham’s grandson, Jacob.  In fact, it is probably the best known of all the Jacob stories.  It’s sometimes called “the story of Jacob’s ladder” — a story depicted in the art of several renaissance artists.      In this story Jacob…