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This half-hour adventure for kids (ages 6-12) follows Lizarardo “Liz” Lacerta and his reptilian friends in the little town of Terrene. In the quest for fun, Liz and his pals often get themselves into trouble! With the help of their parents and other grown-up lizards like Grandpa Anole and Granny Gecko, they wrestle with the challenges and drama of childhood, finding real answers in the Bible. Designed to help children find their own roles in God’s big story, the program is supported by a liv ...
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Website: https://marinawell.com/ Pr. Marie Duquette, with 20 years of sound theological preaching, brings the Bible into current events in this podcast. FROM HER LINKED-IN PROFILE - "I've been a progressive pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) for twenty years, including leading four separate congregations in three states, each with a different emphasis. In that time I've lead a rural congregation through building a church, which included a summer in which several youn ...
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We're not your grandfather's church history podcast. But we'd also really appreciate it if your grandfather still listened to us. IG: @churchhistory4chumps
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How can something old become new again? What can the kids do with an old barn? Let the show begin!By ReFrame Ministries
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8-25-2024 Word To Your Mother With Rev. Marie Duquette
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Send us a Text Message. Who can we trust today? How do we know to trust them? How can we recognize words that are true? Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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Liz and the gang's Clubhouse Theater presents the story of Gideon. Who is he in the Bible? How did God call him?By ReFrame Ministries
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8-18-2024 Fleshing Out Holy Communion with Rev. Marie Duquette
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Send us a Text Message. Bread & wine is a big topic for Jesus. Why is that? Disturbing, enlightening, and mysterious meanings in the Lord's Supper. Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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Liz and the gang's Clubhouse Theater presents the story of Deborah. Who is she in the Bible? What does God want her to do?By ReFrame Ministries
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6-2-2024 Stalking, Walking and Talking by Rev. Marie Duquette
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Send us a Text Message. Jesus provokes the Pharisees, the disciples, and us today, to consider what constitutes a just law and what is an acceptable reason to break the law. https://www.youtube.com/@MarieNDuquette Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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8-4-2024 Soul Food by Rev. Marie Duquette
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Send us a Text Message. Jesus calls himself The Bread of Life for the world. What does this mean? How does faith fill hunger? Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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7-28-2024 There Is Plenty To Go Around by Rev. Marie Duquette
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Send us a Text Message. Today's Gospel invites us to consider: What we do with the fragments and how we will know when we get to the shore. The Olympic Opening Ceremony nudges us to consider answers we might not otherwise have considered. Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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7-21-2024 Citizens With The Saints & Ella's Song
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Send us a Text Message. Baptist Minister Vance Havner explained it well this way: You are not a citizen of this world trying to make your way to heaven…you are a citizen of heaven trying to make your way through this world. We who believe in freedom cannot rest We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes Support the Show.…
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7-14-2024 Who Are You Because of Who Jesus Is by Rev. Marie Duquette
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Send us a Text Message. REFLECT! Don't React! Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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6-16-2024 Mustard Seed - Kingdom of God Like a Weed?
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Send us a Text Message. Holy chaos in the reign of God grows like a bad weed. Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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Why are Liz and Spike not friends any more? Why is Lucille so miserable? Who's behind all this?By ReFrame Ministries
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Scooter’s hero, airplane ace Lonesome Chuckwalla, crash lands into Grandpa’s barn in a storm. And that's just the start of the problems!By ReFrame Ministries
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Look out! Liz disobeys his dad, and then he and Spike are all tangled up with robbers.By ReFrame Ministries
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Liz has a plan to get a good grade without doing any work. And Lucille avoids an opportunity to tell Chamy about her faith.By ReFrame Ministries
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When Liz crashes Grandpa's tractor, he learns an important lesson about mercy and forgiveness.By ReFrame Ministries
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Linda hates that Liz is the special child who always gets what he wants. Grandpa and Granny teach some lessons from Luke 15 to help change her mind.By ReFrame Ministries
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Liz gets away with everything! That's what his sister Linda thinks. And what do a coin and missing chick have to do with precious Liz?By ReFrame Ministries
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Who should Liz choose: a Good Samaritan or the exciting Iguanas? Liz learns lesson in friendship and bike safety.By ReFrame Ministries
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Spike convinces Liz and Scooter to follow horoscopes, so what's Scooter doing on top of a water tower?By ReFrame Ministries
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What has scared Liz and Lucille while lost in the woods? Liz is sure it’s an alien from Planet Xenon planning to kidnap them! What’s going on?By ReFrame Ministries
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The Troubles: Religious (well, kinda religious) Turmoil in Northern Ireland
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Send us a text In many parts of the world, the question of whether you're a Catholic or Protestant means a lot more than if you submit to the Pope, or how you feel about Martin Luther. One such place is Northern Ireland. For generations, the people of Ireland and the United Kingdom have been steeped in a conflict about religious freedom, civil righ…
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The kids come face to face with the worst villain in Terrene history. And one character has a very important decision to make. Does this change Terrene forever?By ReFrame Ministries
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Thomas Bramwell Welch: Why Do Some Churches Use Grape Juice?
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Send us a text Have you ever wondered why some churches use grape juice for communion, while others insist on using wine instead? The answer is more complicated than you think. Or it might be less complicated, I don't know, I feel like you're probably pretty smart. Either way, join us as we discuss Thomas Welch, the Prohibition Era, and the impact …
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5-19-2024 Will Someone Please Shut The Door
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Send us a Text Message. What happens after the wind, the fire, the speaking different languages? What happened then that continues now? What is the point of Pentecost? Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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Liz unconscious in the hospital? Evildoers planning to destroy Terrene? A mystery in Grandpa’s barn? What can Lucille, Morrie and Spike do now?By ReFrame Ministries
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Saint Dymphna & the Town that Welcomes Outsiders
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Send us a text Church history isn't always as, well, historically reliable as we wish it was. Sometimes the stories of saints and heroes tend to blur the lines between fact and fiction. That would be the case of Saint Dymphna, an Irish-Catholic runaway who sought refuge from her violent father in a small town in Belgium. What's interesting though, …
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Grandpa’s news shocks Liz and the gang. What can Liz do as things go from bad to worse?By ReFrame Ministries
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The Magdeburg Confession: Defending the Church from Tyranny
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Send us a text It's 1550. A generation has passed since the Reformation swept across Europe like a wildfire. The Catholic Church has launched the Counter-Reformation, a multi-layered initiative to restore the continent to its former Roman glory. One step of this plan in Germany is to recognize the cities that have fallen into the clutches of Luther…
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Send us a Text Message. 4-21-2024 Feeling Sheepish – Revelation Lutheran Church, Detroit Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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The town of Terrene is in real trouble. Business are shutting down, and folks are moving away. What’s going to happen to Liz and his friends? Can the town be saved?By ReFrame Ministries
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Leo the Great VS. Attila the Hun: At the Mercy of Giants
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Send us a text In the 5th Century, the Western Roman Empire is on its last leg. Riddled with internal conflict, external threats, and even theological disputes tearing at the fabric of the Church, Rome has seen better days. And the great shadow of the Huns looms larger and larger as days go by. This leads to one of the most engaging (and unexpected…
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Grandpa and Liz are on a treasure hunt! They’re following clues left behind by Grandpa’s childhood friend. What’s the next clue—and what treasure is hidden somewhere in Terrene?By ReFrame Ministries
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Lucille has great plans for the church’s youth camp, but everything is put on hold with a hospital visit. Can Lucille’s replacement Liz pull it off?By ReFrame Ministries
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The History of Paedocommunion: Should Baptized Children Receive Communion?
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Send us a text If you're not a Baptist (and we still love you even if you are), you're probably no stranger to the idea of infant baptism. The doctrine of paedobaptism is saturated with the idea that the children of believers are heirs of the covenant of grace, and through baptism are welcomed into God's family. But did you know that for several ce…
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Space Troopers Liz Laserlight and Spike Starrunner have 17 minutes to save the planet Zot from destruction. Can their words and actions convince the Noobles and the Nerbles not to use their secret weapons?By ReFrame Ministries
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HEFTY HERESIES: Serpent Seed Doctrine: Did Eve Sleep with the Serpent??
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Send us a text Beginning as a fringe interpretation of the creation story in Genesis, the Serpent Seed Doctrine asks a question that no one really seems to be asking: what if Satan and Eve had a little...fling? It's a wild doctrine with even more of a wild history. So let's talk about it! Also, we're not gonna be too crude this episode, but given t…
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Send us a Text Message. Did Jesus feel he had to prove it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkKA63iR68w Website: https://marinawell.com/ Pr. Marie Duquette, with 20 years of sound theological preaching, brings the Bible into current events in this podcast. FROM HER LINKED-IN PROFILE - "I've been a progressive pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Churc…
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Skink and Cole are going to fight! What’s this all about anyway? And why is Liz so happy about it?By ReFrame Ministries
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The 26 Martyrs of Japan: A Pilgrimage to the Cross
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Send us a text The 16th Century was a rollercoaster for Japanese Christians. The first half was amazing-- the first Portuguese missionaries broke ground and people were getting saved by the thousands. Churches were built, clergy established, things were looking great. The second half was...well, pretty bad. A combination of suspicious Japanese lead…
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3-30-2024 Good Friday's 'Lay Your Burdens Down Already' 2024
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Send us a Text Message. Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC365UWForRqptz6Xhgs5crQ Website: https://www.marinawell.com If Jesus died for the forgiveness of sins, why are his followers so reluctant to forgive? Support the Show.By Deborah Bohn
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Bartolomé de las Casas: A Voice in the Wilderness of the New World
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Send us a text The discovery (well, sort of discovery) of the New World was one of the most groundbreaking events in world history. The decades that followed however, would be marked by widespread violence and abuse of power as the colonizing Europeans came to settle in a foreign new land. In the midst of this broken system, there were several voic…
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3-24-2024 Crucifixion All Over by Rev. Marie Duquette
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Granny’s valuable family ring is lost among 500 chocolate cupcakes. Can Lucille and Liz find it before someone else accidentally bites into it?By ReFrame Ministries
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HEFTY HERESIES: Gnosticism: Is Creation EVIL?
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Send us a text Well folks, we've danced around this topic for long enough. It's time to unpack the grand-daddy of all heresies (most heresies), the second-century slammer, the demiurge devastator...Gnosticism. Unlike many of the heresies we've discussed so far this season, Gnosticism is a tricky one to pin down. There is no singular, authoritative …
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3-17-2024 Don't Leave The Greeks at The Door
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Send us a Text Message. If the people in the church claim to see Jesus, how do they show Jesus to newcomers. Support the Show.By Marie Duquette
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When Liz, Morrie and Scooter do some snooping around in places they shouldn’t be, they discover clues to the mystery of the Blue Pearl. Who was the Blue Pearl?By ReFrame Ministries
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On the Pascha by Melito of Sardis: Let's Talk about Easter!
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Send us a text In the second century, it's safe to say that Christians were still kind of figuring things out. One of those things for example, was the celebration of Easter. There was a heated disagreement in the church about whether Easter should be celebrated on a Sunday (the Lord's Day) or whether it should stay on the day of the Jewish Passove…
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3-10-2024 Reconciling With Snakes by Rev. Marie Duquette
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Send us a Text Message. How do we reconcile that the things that hurt us are also the things that can cure us. A storytelling sermon based on John 3:16 Pr. Marie Duquette has semi-retired to write, blog and podcast. Follow at https://marinawell.com/ Pastor: Rev. Marie Duquette Producer: Deborah Bohn Subscribe and don't miss another sermon. Follow u…
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