Jeffrey C. Long

Last week I was with a pastor friend traveling the Oregon countryside visiting his relatives culminating with the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference. This week, I am at home in Ephrata with my family packing up all our worldly belongings to move to Idaho. So my life is a little too crowded [...]

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This is part 3 of a sermon I taught at Filer Mennonite Church on June 5th, 2005 Four steps to examine your life in preparation for the Lord’s supper. John 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can [...]

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This is part 2 of a sermon I preached at Filer Mennonite Church on Sunday June 5th, 2005 I want to take a moment and study this subject of examining our life before taking the communion so that we can take it in good conscience and let it be the celebration it was intended to [...]

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This is part 1 of a sermon I preached at Filer Mennonite Church on Sunday, June 5th, 2005 There’s a wonderful story by Isak Dinesen called Babette’s Feast, about a strict, dour, fundamentalist community in Denmark. Babette works as a cook for two elderly sisters who have no idea that she once was a chef [...]

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Neil Gaiman recently posted a link to this essay he wrote in 1997 called “Where do you get ideas.” Following is an excerpt You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. [...]

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