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Words That Make New Worlds

Read Hosea 14:1–9      Words are important to me. I have been known to lay claim to a little nonsensical quotation...
Bob Turner
June 11, 2026
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From Quark to Quasar

Read Psalm 33:1–12      Considering the content of my sermon from last Sunday, I find it interesting that the...
Bob Turner
June 4, 2026
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Hated by the World

Read John 15:18–20, 26–27      Long centuries of the ascendancy of Christendom may have obscured it, but the...
Bob Turner
May 28, 2026
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Rededication

Read Psalm 33:12–22      “Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, / the people whom [God] has chosen as [God’s]...
Bob Turner
May 21, 2026
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Messy Motivations

     Sarah and I did something difficult and necessary this week. We signed a contract to place my mother in a...
Bob Turner
May 14, 2026
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A Spacious Place

     Read Psalm 66:8–20      The writer of Psalm 66 exhorts his readers to “bless our God, O peoples; / let the...
Bob Turner
May 7, 2026
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The Good Confession

Read Acts 6:8–15      The story of Stephen in the book of Acts is a cautionary tale for our times. He gets...
Bob Turner
April 30, 2026
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Painting the Stars

     For many years, partly starting with the Enlightenment of the 18th century but really accelerating after...
Bob Turner
April 23, 2026
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Wadis

Read Psalm 126      Psalm 126 is a “psalm of ascents,” one of a series of songs Israelite pilgrims would sing...
Bob Turner
April 9, 2026
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Here Is Your King

     Read John 19:1–16      Last weekend millions of people across the country, and even in some European cities,...
Bob Turner
April 3, 2026

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