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Third Sunday in Lent – March 15, 2020

John 4:5-29

To begin, I would like to share with you a joke, one that gently pokes fun at another denomination. However, since this joke makes fun of someone else, I feel obliged to first tell you a joke that makes fun of people like me, so here goes:

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Second Sunday in Lent – March 8, 2020

John 3:1-17

This is a true story of a colleague of mine.

Years ago, a young pastor was serving in a local church appointment not long after graduating from seminary in a United Methodist church in a small town in the deep south. While serving there, he found himself one night at a meeting of the Church Council when one of the items on the agenda was the fact that they had to find a new volunteer church treasurer, as their current treasurer had decided to step down. The office of church treasurer is not easy in any size church, so that congregation’s leadership would have to give a good deal of thought to determining who the new church treasurer would be.

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