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Archive for March, 2012

To Be Always under Instruction – 3/11/2012
Mar 13th
Sermon for Sunday, 11 March 2012 Riverside United Methodist Church
Pastor Douglas Asbury
Exodus 20.1-17: God speaks the “Ten Words” (as they are known in Judaism), beginning with an important identity statement: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”
Psalm 19: A More >
Why I open with jokes…
Mar 5th
Some of you who read my posted sermons from the past couple of months may wonder why I start each one with a joke of some kind. For some people, jokes seem out of place in church or as part of a serious presentation of a message from God.
Several months More >

Initiated into the Promise – 3/4/2012
Mar 4th
Sermon for Sunday, March 4, 2012
Riverside United Methodist Church
Pastor Douglas Asbury
Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16: El Shaddai (God of the Mountains/God of Compassion) calls Abram to be exclusively loyal and offers to covenant with him to make him (to be renamed Abraham) the father and Sarai (to be renamed Sarah) the More >
Thanks for the kudos, and yet…
Mar 10th
Posted by Pastor Doug in Meditations
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