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Entries for October 7th, 2008

A Community that Loves God

A Community that Loves God - A Message from Mark 12:28-31
Sermon by Jamie Wilson @ Coast Vineyard on October 5th, 2008
Jamie’s sermon was focused on Mark 12:30, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength,” and challenged us to [...]

Work is Difficult

Any work done faithfully and well is difficult.  It is not harder for me to do my job well than for any other person, and no less.  There are no easy tasks in the Christian way; there are only tasks that can be done faithfully or erratically, with joy or with resentment.  And there is [...]

Costs of the Christian Life

“…Everyday I put faith on the line.  I have never seen God.  In a world where nearly everything can be weighted, explained, quantified, subjected to psychological analysis and scientific control, I persist in making the center of my life a God whom no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, whose will no one can probe…
Everyday [...]

Witness, not Apology

“…But if I accept any of these assignments I misunderstand my proper work, for God doesn’t need me to defend him.  He doesn’t need me for a press secretary, explaining to the world that he didn’t really say what everyone thought they heard in that interview with Job, or that the quotation of his word [...]