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Heidi Husted
Heidi Husted is the interim senior pastor at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Washington.
Matters of the heart: Sunday, September 3 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
"There is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile a person.” Or as Eugene Peterson translates it, “It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life.” I’m tempted to disagree....
When the gospel goes to the dogs (Mark 7:24-30)
If we are to get past our discomfort with the name-calling, we will have to look more closely and note what Jesus does with the word dog.
Decisions (Joshua 24:1-2, 14-18; John 6:56-69)
Woody Allen once remarked that humanity is at a crossroads: “One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction....
Wisdom famine (Proverbs 9:1-6; Ephesians 5:15-20)
Proverbs 9 seems to suggest that someone might be tempted to bypass wisdom’s feast and try to survive on the thin gruel of folly, or information.
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