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1. Mother Knows Best (Isaiah 57:14-21)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

Isaiah 57:14-21 reminds me of the magnificat of the virgin Mary where it speaks about the humiliation of the proud and the exaltation of the humble.  Mother Mary knows best -- she willingly submitted ...

2. Sleeping Sheepdogs (Isaiah 56:9-57:13)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

Isaiah 56:9-57:13 compares the watchmen or elders or shepherds of Israel to sleeping dogs -- thus I combined the metaphors of shepherding and sleeping dogs to say that they are sleeping sheep dogs.  ...

3. Free Wine* (Isaiah 55)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

You knew when you saw the title of this sermon that there must be some kind of catch.  And the truth is -- there is.  The wine is not really free -- it is very expensive wine and it took a very ...

4. The Easter Wedding (Isaiah 54)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

Isaiah 54 may not be the standard text for Easter but maybe you are not feeling eager to sing or even shriek for joy today.  Israel, a barren, widowed or worse -- divorced, woman was certainly not feeling ...

5. On the Redefinition of Marriage
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

For the record... Yesterday there was a vote in the presbytery of Western New York to concur with an overture that would redefine marriage as not between a man and a woman but between two persons.  The ...

6. Noll's America's God
(reading report/Recommendations)

Noll, Mark A.  America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.  New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002. This is an incredibly important book if you are going to understand the themes of common ...

7. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism   Keller, Timothy. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. New York: Dutton, 2008. Brief Overview of the Book (Theme, Perspective, ...

8. public statement of faith
(FAQs/General)

Rev. Justin Lee Marple, Pastor of Niagara Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of Western New York. My calling to be a teaching shepherd is one way I am living out my calling to be one of the sheep ...