Opossum Screed: Salt & Light

February 28, 2017

Today's sermon text was Matthew 5:13-16

Always a Reckoning: A Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent

Therefore his faith was reckoned to him as righteousness. —Rom. 4:22 Just about all religions offer the world a set of rules. In fact,...
If You Have an Enemy

A naturalist, who has reared several bear-cubs, says, "If you have an enemy, give him a bear-cub. His punishment will be ad...
Sent Forth

The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you. ✙ Numbers 6:25 ✙ It is a wonderful thing to gather in Christ's Name....
Humans and Animals

You save humans and animals alike, O Lord. ✙ Psalm 36:6 ✙ On earth, the things we see every day praise God, if only we would take the time...
The Peace of Christ

You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. ✙ Isaiah 54:14 ✙ Jesus had been...
Unchanging Truth

His truth is a shield and a buckler. ✙ Psalm 91:4 (ASB) ✙ One of the most haunting scenes in the gospels is found at the end of John 18 . A...
Because He Lives

I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord. ✙ Psalm 118:17 ✙ God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus. He cam...

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⚃ Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, by Gretchen McCulloch (2019)
⚂ Blackguard, by Maxwell Bodenheimer (1923)
⚅ Boone: A Biography, by Robert Morgan (2008)
⚂ The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language, by Mark Forsyth (2012)
⚄ The Forgotten Creed: Christianity's Original Struggle against Bigotry, Slavery, and Sexism, by Stephen J. Patterson (2018)
⚄ How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived, by Leslie Jordan (2021)
⚃ A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, by Andrés Reséndez (2007)
⚄ The Last Tribe, by Brad Manuel (2015)
⚅ The Log from the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck (1951)
⚅ Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, by Matthew Dicks (2012)
⚃ New Girl in Little Cove, by Damhnait Monaghan (2021)
⚁ One More Last Time: A LitRPG/GameLit Novel, by Eric Ugland (2018)
⚄ A Traveler at Forty, by Theodore Dreiser (1913)
⚃ The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates 1), by S.J. Bennett (2021)

Sam Greening: I'm a pastor serving a UCC/DOC partnership congregation in the Western Reserve.

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