Matthew L. Kelley
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Blog Preaching Bin Laden's Death
I haven't been able to turn on the TV in the last 24 hours without hearing people analyze the death of Osama bin Laden from every conceivable angle. Even though it's Monday, it's…
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Article Worship for Communities in Crisis
Early one morning I was awakened at sunrise by someone pounding on my door. I was at the Methodist Seminary in San Jose, Costa Rica, on a mission trip, and I expected this day…
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Blog The Holy Machine
Today I came across a really interesting passage in The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey, which is the last volume in Thomas Merton's journals before his…
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Article Review: The Stewardship Companion
David Mosser’s Stewardship Companion (Westminster John Knox) takes on a very ambitious task: to show how the theme of stewardship can be found in at least one of the texts…
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Article Sermon Starter: The Temptation of Eve and of Jesus
The easiest way to get someone to do something is to tell them they can’t do it. This has literally been the case from the beginning. Adam and Eve had a great thing going…
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Article Sermon Starter: In the Wilderness
“Do you ever feel like you just don’t belong anywhere?” This question was posed to me by an older and wiser colleague of mine a while back. We were both at a…
About This Author
Matt Kelley is Pastor of Arlington United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tenn. He has written about preaching, worship, and youth ministry for numerous publications, and blogs at The Truth As Best I Know It.
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