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1. Enns' Ecclesiastes
(reading report/Recommendations)

... despair as well as for pastors everywhere, do not let the fact that it is a commentary scare you away.  ...

2. Niagara's December Newsletter
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

... Christ!” or “The Peace of Christ be with you.” These are not empty words, these words perform an action like the pastor pronouncing a man and a woman husband and wife at a wedding. And they do this because ...

3. God Gives Through You (1 Tim 5:1-18)
(sermons/2011 Sermons)

1 Timothy 5:1-18 shows that God gives to both widows and pastors through people like you and me.  God gives through the immediate family to help the widow who has an immediate family, God gives through ...

4. Niagara's November Newsletter
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

Click here for the newsletter. Below is the text of the Pastor's Pastures from the newsletter linked above...   The secular holiday season keeps starting earlier and earlier each year. Now Halloween ...

5. Pastor's Green Pastures: October 2011
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

... Christ, Pastor Justin  ...

6. All Sins Are Not "Created" Equal, Part 2
(teaching/Systematic Theology)

... who are teaching elders (often pastors, but also other elders who specialize in other teaching settings).  That is, with greater knowledge of what is right and wrong comes greater offensiveness when the ...

7. All Sins Are Not "Created" Equal
(teaching/Systematic Theology)

... a pastoral manner.  But it needs to be said for our purposes here that the same-gender sexual sin is more serious than the corresponding heterosexual sexual sin.  This is not a popular truth as many even ...

8. Pastor's Green Pastures: The Woman at the Well
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

Below is the Pastor's column, you can find the rest of the March 2011 newsletter by clicking here. The most popular location to find a wife for the patriarchs was the well. The servant of Abraham stood ...

9. In Defence of Women's Ordination
(teaching/Systematic Theology)

... their own wives as Jesus is the head of the church.  There is one head in the marriage relationship.  There is one head of the church -- Jesus (not the pastor and not any of the elders). These are comments ...

10. Pastor's Green Pastures: Living Nativity
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DECEMBER 2010 NEWSLETTER. The first time Christ came Mary wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. And there ...

11. The Pastor's Green Pastures (Nov 2010)
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD NOVEMBER'S NEWSLETTER I have enjoyed our first year together. You have been a source of joy in my life and an encouragement to me in many things. Your love for me and my family ...

12. The Pastor's Green Pastures: Thoughts on Politics and Faith
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

The Pastor's Green Pastures for October's newsletter is below...the whole newsletter is available by clicking here. We are in an election year where many are determined to remind Washington that politicians ...

13. The Pastor's Green Pastures: Garden Update
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

Below is September's "The Pastor's Green Pastures."  You can download the entire Niagara Presbyterian Church newsletter for September here.  An additional flier about the 3D class is here. Some of you ...

14. The Invitation: A Simple Guide to the Bible by Eugene Peterson
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)

... It is not an introduction that gives lots of background information or outlines or other common introductory issues.  Instead the book is much more practical and pastoral.  Even the analogy of the Books ...

15. Hosea 13:16 in a Culture of Life
(teaching/general teachings)

A caller on “Ask the Pastor” brought up Hosea 13:16 (14:1 in Hebrew and Greek). It reads: “Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ...

16. Pastor's Green Pastures: GA Edition
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

Below is the article for the August newsletter.  You can find the whole newsletter here. One person who went to GA described trying to tell people back in his home church about what happened as being ...

17. "Ask the Pastor" 21 July 2010
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

I was on the "Ask the Pastor" program on TCT network nationwide.  You can watch at: [this video is no longer available at the link, I am scheduled to appear once a month locally on Wednesdays at 2pm] http://vidego.multicastmedia.com/player.php?v=m6g7d8u5 ...

18. The Pastor's Green Pastures: Gardening
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

You can download the July newsletter at http://revmarple.com/niagara/newsletters/July_2010.pdf Below is the Pastor's column from it: One of the things I did during my recent vacation was to plant a ...

19. The Pastor's Green Pastures
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

... went.  Below is the body of the pastor's column in that newsletter.   It is no accident that two of the heroes of the Old Testament, Moses and David, were first shepherds so that they would be prepared ...

20. The Pastor's Green Pastures
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

Below is the column from this month's newsletter (you can download at http://revmarple.com/niagara/newsletters/May_2010.pdf)   People have been asking me to teach on Revelation for more than five years ...