Entries by Josh Rice

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The Way

A treasure hunter’s first treasure is a map.  No life is long enough to crawl down all the world’s caves, or dig up all the earth’s deserts, or set sail for all the remote islands in all the seven seas.  Without an “X marks the spot”, fortune will likely elude our explorer.  Sadly, the same fate […]

September 8, 2017 by
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Cassandra’s Curse

September 3, 2017 John 14:15-17 15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16 I will ask the Father, and He   will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with […]

September 3, 2017 by
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Bearing Much Fruit

August 27, 2017 John 12:20-26 20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus. 23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the […]

August 27, 2017 by
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Requiem For the Flatlander

August 20, 2017 Psalm 87 “His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwelling places of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. 4 “I shall mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me; Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia: ‘This one was born there.’” 5 But of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one […]

August 20, 2017 by
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Believing Without Seeing

August 13, 2017 John 20:24-29 24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into […]

August 13, 2017 by