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First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, TNThe Rev. Joseph Evans
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First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, TN
The Rev. Joe Evans is senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, TN. Joe is a graduate of Presbyterian College and Columbia Theological Seminary where he was nominated for the "David HC Reed preacher/scholar award". He was ordained into the office of Minister of Word and Sacrament at First Presbyterian Church, Marietta GA in March of 2007. Rev. Evans was ordained to serve Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in Lilburn, GA as Associate Pastor of Mission and Outreach, but became the Interim Pastor in 2009.
He has served as editor of Lectionary Homiletics journal since 2005, and has contributed to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Journal for Preachers, as well as Lectionary Homiletics.
Joe and his wife, Sara, live in Columbia, TN with their daughter Lily.
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Romans 8:18-25
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The Rev. Joseph Evans (PCUSA)Celebrities are a big deal in the developed world today. I don't know how newsworthy it was, but it was all over the news not too long ago that actress Natalie Portman was pregnant at the Oscars. If you Google "Natalie Portman pregnant" you are bound to get a variety of results: "engaged to Benjamin Millepied," "pregnant actress a sanitizer-toting germaphobe," and even "Mike Huckabee rips Portman over out-of-wedlock pregnancy."
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The Sower's Lesson
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
4th Sunday after Pentecost - Year A
July 10, 2011
The Rev. Joseph Evans (PCUSA)In today's Gospel lesson Jesus is having a problem that I would love to have--that when I preach on Sunday morning the crowds would be so great that I would have to sit out on a boat to avoid being consumed by the growing congregation on the shore.
But while I know that this is not the problem of many churches in our denomination or other members of the mainline this Sunday morning, in my church, like so many churches, there was once the problem of not having enough space.
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