Entries by Josh Rice

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Under Pressure

July 6, 2025 Psalm 125 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore. For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest […]

July 6, 2025 by
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Raising the Banner

Good morning church family, Were I pastoring in New Hampshire when it was a colony of the British Empire and not yet a state in the American Republic, I wonder if I would have used my pastoral position and spiritual influence to encourage revolution. It’s a vexing question. With militias mustering all about, talk of […]

July 5, 2025 by
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Apprenticeship Over Scholarship

June 29, 2025 John 12:27-36 “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” The crowd that stood […]

June 29, 2025 by
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No More Gospel in a Gift Bag

Good morning church family, Should future inhabitants of North America send a team of private investigators back in time to look into the collapse of Western civilization during the twenty-first century, one piece of evidence they’d be certain to catalogue would be the broad and shrugging use of the gift bag. Now, there may more […]

June 28, 2025 by
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The Rising of Another Lion

June 22, 2025 Numbers 23:18-24 And Balaam took up his discourse and said, “Rise, Balak, and hear; give ear to me, O son of Zippor: God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has […]

June 22, 2025 by