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Kris and I spent a lovely 24 hours recently with the good folks at Walled Lake, MI where I spoke at Orchard Grove Community Church<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0It was our second opportunity to be with this church.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>Highlights as always were the people, including Gina and Karl with whom we shared a meal on Saturday night. \u00a0Thanks also to Madison for being our host on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Orchard Grove has a vibrant ministry in a suburb of Detroit, and I was mostly given a blank slate on which to draft the teaching, and I chose to talk about \u201cthe parable from hell,\u201d Luke 16, and developed the parable from the angle of how you and I may well approach this text with questions about who goes where when we die, but the parable asks us a different question: How have you treated the poor among you?<\/p>\n

Another highlight was meeting RJS for the first time, and we had an opportunity to chat between services. We have been corresponding for years via e-mail but we had never met until last Sunday \u2026<\/p>\n

Thanks for the kind hospitality, Orchard Grove Community Church!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"