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Adventures of a Nazarene Youth Pastor: July 2008
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Adventures of a Nazarene Youth Pastor. Welcome to the web ramblings of a Nazarene Youth Pastor. You will find humor, random thoughtful crap, and a ton of lessons and sermons that you are free to steal. Monday, July 7, 2008. Yet, here we are literally singing praise songs to America in the House of God. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm just a young Nazarene Youth Pastor who struggles everyday to do ministry that is impactful and theologically sound. I grow increasingly tired of the fluff and shallow na...
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RICKS REMARKS: May 2014
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Thursday, May 29, 2014. On May 16, 2014, I spent an amazing forty minutes with my friend, Richard Helphand. I met him about a year ago, just after he had come to Christ and was baptized. Today He is dying. He knows it. His life is ebbing away in an assisted living facility in Glendale, California. The doctors have given him from two weeks to two months, and assured him that they have done all they know to do. Now they are tying to keep him comfortable. Much of what happ...
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RICKS REMARKS: January 2015
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Thursday, January 29, 2015. In the sixteen verses of Psalm 42 and 43, the writer talks to himself and says, “ Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. 8221; (Ps. 42: 5, 11, and Psalm 43:5). I am not by nature a man of faith. My nature is fear, carefulness, and caution. In and of myself I feel like a case study on how not to be a man of faith. I take James serio...
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RICKS REMARKS: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Sunday, July 12, 2015. WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? A few years ago a question swept through youth groups all around the country:. What Would Jesus Do? I've always thought it was a good question though some thought it not. It seems to be a springboard question, a question that awakens us to other questions. How does Jesus see things? What is Jesus' opinion of this or that? I wonder where Jesus might draw a line on issues that face the church and the world today? What would His ...
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RICKS REMARKS: July 2014
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Last weekend pastor Scott Chamberlain brought us to the end of our brief journey through the book of Joshua and to a pivotal point in the life of God’s people. It was a good moment for them. Joshua 23:1 says “the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies.”. That’s a good moment, isn’t it? Joshua is now old, though, and his days of leadership are coming to an end. It seems like we’re always choosing something. Joshua said it this way,.
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RICKS REMARKS: June 2015
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH IN THE 21st CENTURY. In the opening paragraph of a message he preached on May 9, 1915, John Henry Jowett said to his congregation in the First Avenue Presbyterian church in New York City. If that were true in 1915 it is even truer on 2015. The world has changed in the last hundred years, is changing even as I write and you read, and will change again in what will appear to be a twinkling of an eye. What is it they say?
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RICKS REMARKS: October 2014
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Thursday, October 23, 2014. BEING ONE PERSON IN A BIG WORLD. By the time I was born my parents were Christians and growing in their new faith. I am blessed beyond belief to have been raised in a Christian home. It was a simple home, and my parents were simple people. They were ordinary folks, unpretentious, middle class, and hard workers. With God at the center of their story, He became the Center of who we were as a family, making our way in the world. It sounds like y...
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RICKS REMARKS: February 2015
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Saturday, February 07, 2015. WHEN YOUR LIFE AND TIMES ARE IN THE HANDS OF GOD. In Chapter seventeen of book Three in. The Imitation of Chris. T by Thomas à Kempis a conversation takes place between Jesus and a disciple. MY CHILD, allow me to do what I will with you. I know what is best for you. You think as a man; you feel in many things as human affection persuades. Can we trust ourselves to God that way? Does God have to bless us to get our affection? Does God always ...
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RICKS REMARKS: April 2015
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Devotional thoughts From My Heart. Friday, April 10, 2015. BROKEN CHORDS AND AMAZING GRACE. Setting in church a couple of Sunday's ago, and listening to the message of the day, some thoughts came flooding into me. That doesn't happen to me too often so I wrote them down as a quickly as I could so I wouldn't forget them. Now I'm trying to read my handwriting to decipher what I wrote. They are miscellaneous but somehow form a pattern, a glorious pattern of grace. Jesus descends the mountain. The thought ab...
