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The Rev. Dr. Trace Haythorn
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The Art of Welcome

Matthew 10:40-42

Proper 8 - Year A

June 29, 2008

The Rev. Dr. Trace Haythorn (PCUSA)

Welcome. It's such a common word. It adorns floor mats outside all sorts of entryways. It's often on road signs as one enters a new state, a new town. I even saw a welcome sign recently as I entered a national forest. There are places where people offer "welcome" as a greeting as I enter: "Welcome to Wal-Mart!" "Good evening and welcome-table for two?" "Welcome to the greatest show on earth!"

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The Rev. Dr. Rob Nash
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On Chocolate Chip Cookies and Dirty Water and Being Church in a Shrinking World

John 20:19-23

May 25, 2008

The Rev. Dr. Rob Nash (CBF)

The Rev. Dr. Rob Nash is the Global Mission Coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Not too terribly long ago I made my way up to a first church in a rural county seat town in the South to deliver the Sunday morning message. As I drove into town, I nearly ran off the road when I saw a sign just in front of a little brick ranch home that said "Laotian Buddhist Temple." It was certainly the first Buddhist temple that I had ever seen in that part of the country. And I scratched my head in wonder and amazement and drove on up to the church.

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