Jeffrey C. Long

The following sermon was preached on February 26th, 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church. Unless otherwise indicated, all sermons online are taken from the original notes and have not been edited for publication C.S. Lewis said in his book Mere Christianity “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be [...]

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Last night I had the privilege of picking up my daughter at the Boise airport. It was the second time I noticed that the arrivals area of an airport is that happiest place on earth. Both the people waiting and those arriving are anxious to be reunited with their loved ones. It’s nearly festive when [...]

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I have long been suspicious that the font Papyrus needs to be put to rest. I’m sure you’ve seen this and probably used it yourself. It was first used nationally in the poster for the film “Pirates of the Caribbean.” I use it in our bulletin as a header. But it is overexposed. Today I [...]

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This morning while sipping a latte at Moxie Java in Twin Falls, I decided to listen to an old concert of Vida Blue. Suddenly I was catapulted back to 9 months ago when I first discovered the band, headlined by Phish keyboardist Page McConnell. Why did this music throw me back in time? Because at [...]

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Today I preached a sermon on the baptism of Jesus that I felt went pretty well.  It surprised me though, in that I prepared for it differently then I normally do.  My usual pattern is to outline the text, study my commentaries and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and then finally write out the text [...]

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Today as we look at the baptism of Jesus I have three examples of how He was our model. Luke 3:21-22 21 Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a [...]

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My friend Raul has been feverishly trying to get his dot on the cluster map down below. If you click on the map you will finally see a dot in Hawaii. Congratulations Raul

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I am wanting to begin sharing some of the art that inspires me. I’m still trying to figure out how to do it… I asked someone yesterday how you describe instrumental music in a blog entry. She didn’t have a clue. I think I’m going to try making a “mix tape” of links to the [...]

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If you dig music and would like to hear something new, I suggest one of the 1994 and before concerts of Phish. I really like their music but have only really heard their later stuff. I just downloaded their Rave at Central Park concert from 1992 and it is fabulous. Way more energy then their [...]

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I’ve been using two online resources for daily Bible reading that I wanted to share. These both make use of liturgical traditions which I find the most helpful for my devotional personality and spirituality. Both come from breviaries. Wikipedia says that a breviary “is is a liturgical book containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, [...]

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