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The Table of Gratitude

3/28/2020

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By Pastor Amber Traeger
Scripture:  John 12:1-8
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The Table of Forgiveness

3/21/2020

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By Pastor Tracey Leslie
Scripture:  Luke 7:36-50

​A story is told of a family out for a Sunday drive.  Suddenly the two children in the back seat begin to shout, “Daddy, daddy, stop the car!  There’s a kitten back there on the side of the road.  You have to stop and pick it up.”
“I don’t have to stop and pick it up,” says the father.
“But it will die,” plead the children.
“We don’t have room for another animal.  We have a zoo already at the house.  No more animals.”
“We never thought our Daddy would be so mean and cruel to let a kitten die,” the children say.
Mother chimes in, “Honey, you have to stop.”
Dad turns the car around; heads back to the spot and parks his car on the side of the road.  “You kids stay in the car.”
The little kitten is just skin and bones, sore-eyed, and full of fleas.  When he reaches down to pick it up, with its last bit of energy, it bristles and hisses, bearing tooth and claw.  Dad lifts the kitten up by the nap of its neck and brings it back to the car.  “Don’t touch it,” he says sternly.
Back home, the children give the kitten warm milk and food… and a flea bath.  They ask, “Daddy, can it stay in the house just tonight?  Tomorrow we’ll fix a place in the garage.”
Father replies, “Sure, take my bedroom.  The house is a zoo already anyway.”  And the children make up a nice, soft bed for the kitten.  Several weeks pass.  One day dad walks into his bedroom, he feels something rub against his leg, he looks down, and there is the kitten.  Checking to see that no one is watching, he reaches down.  And, when it sees his hand, it does not bare its claws and hiss; instead it purrs and rubs its face in his palm.  Is that the same cat; that dirty, ugly, hissing kitten by the side of the road?  What in the world can effect such a change?  

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The Table of Generosity

3/16/2020

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By Pastor Tracey Leslie
Scripture:  John 6:1-14

Some of you might recall my having mentioned Donald, an 8th grade classmate of mine who, like me, had “linguistic intelligence.”  As we’ve learned more about multiple intelligences in recent years, those with linguistic intelligence are those who excel with words – reading, writing, vocabulary, giving speeches, etc.  So, Donald and I shared this particular intelligence that really just made us annoying geeks and nerds to our fellow classmates.  I vividly recall one day in class when Donald made a statement to the teacher that included a rare word that Donald used, well, uniquely.  The teacher informed him that was not how the word was commonly used.  Donald proceeded to rattle off its full range of meaning… including its rare usage; the one used by Donald.

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