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Antonyms: neglect, clean, remove, erase, overlook, disregard, forget, do housework, do the cleaning, omit, cause, detag, clear, smooth, undamaged, unmarked, let ride, ignore, scrub, wash, pay no attention to, take no notice of, abandon, cross off, cross out
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1176. Step Eleven - Spirituality
Mt 26:36-46 · 1 Thess 5:12-22 · Ps 25:1-15
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John A. Terry
... be thought of like that. There are no programs laid out for us like AAA will plan our trips with all the routes and exits marked. Especially when trouble strikes, I have a lot of difficulty calling that God's will. I do not think it is God's will that ... first trusting in what we will not see this side of eternity. The psalmist was mindful of God's steadfast will from of old (v. 6) and trusted that day because of what God has done in the past. The will of God is not simply something that happens to us. ...
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Johnny Dean
... Law of Moses. One was worn on the head and the other on the arm. These two passages were written on the paper: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 You shall love the Lord you God and Leviticus 19:18 You shall love your neighbor as your self Every one knew ... confronted with the task of keeping the law. A businessman well known for his ruthlessness, not a nice fellow at all, once announced to writer Mark Twain, "Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the 10 Commandments aloud ...
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Rolf E. Aaseng
... Paul assured the Philippians, "I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6). Life with the dimensions God intends for us is depicted graphically in Revelation. In contrast to the fate of the unrepentant who have eternal torment marked by weeping and gnashing of teeth, those in Christ's presence will no longer experience any sorrow or crying or pain. The blissful existence intended in God's creation has now come ...
1179. Loving
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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Larry Powell
... . Love knows how to wait. Where would we be had not some good teacher patiently presided over the first illegible markings of our stubby, little, undisciplined hands and notoriously short attention spans, while teaching us to write out the letters of ... , according to Paul, without love, we are nothing. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. (verse 6) At numerous times during recovery operations, authorities in a flood-stricken city were forced to request that curious onlookers refrain from ...
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Alan Bacon Bond
... not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers."Vs. 3 "Trust in the Lord, and do good so you will dwell in the land and enjoy security."Vs. 37 "Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, there is posterity for the man of peace." If we are going to receive Christ's peace, then we are necessarily going to have to ... source of peace, through Jesus Christ. Amen 1. From Catalyst Tape Talk, by Robert Raines (Vol. 13, Number 6, 1980, used by permission of Word Books, Publisher, Waco, TX 76796.)
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Alan Bacon Bond
... may be the actual street on which Jesus walked. On some of those stones along the roadway are chiseled game boards with the markings of a basilica. The name referred not to a form of church building known as the basilica, but rather to its root word ... worshiping the false god named "Security," and that we see the world and its peoples as a unitary whole, as God sees us. 6. The sixth step was the realization that peace already exists. It has been established through the sacrifice of Jesus. To accept Christ, is ...
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James Angell
... were vying for the presidency, the figure became three billion. In 1975, four billion. Today there are 5.7 billion of us. And by 2000, 6.3 billion. So that more than half of all the people who ever lived on planet Earth are alive today. We might wish there were ... it here, that in that moment, the sun will rise and set with the same regularity as it did the day before. It will not be marked by the tolling of any Great Clock. Rather, it will be a day to be born, or die, to begin to plan high school graduation, ...
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... also circumcised. . . and you were buried with him in baptism. . . also raised with him through faith. . . (and) made alive together with him." (Colossians 2:6-13) You know what it means to "live in another." We do it when we watch a movie and identify with the hero. We do ... . A few Sundays after I was installed in my first parish, I preached a sermon which I thought had all the marks of great oration - at times witty, at times forceful, with pacing and grammar impeccable. After the service this lady came to ...
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... believed what the Lord had said and left Ur of the Chaldeans for the Promised Land. The chosen people had wandered off the mark. Worshiping golden calves or hurling their children to gods called Baal, they tried to win God’s favor. Believing in their own potential ... is like that of the flower, to fade away after a few days of glory. But the Word of the Lord stands forever!" (40:6-8) This fiery prophet taught God’s people that their only potential was in the Word of the Lord. Their minds, hearts, or power ...
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... deserves better. As the Jews come to the holy mount to meet God they are enjoined not to come too close. A boundary was marked around the mountain. Beyond that separating line they must not go. They were commanded not to go up to the mountain or even get ... giving in their worship, and the Holy Spirit struck them dead. When David was bringing the ark of God from Baalejudah to Jerusalem, (2 Samuel 6:1-15) it was placed on a cart, and when the ark began to slip on the cart, Uzzah put out his hand to steady ...
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Harold Warlick
... our particular experiences, hurts, angers and pressures to reflect on the grand design of things, the larger issues. Perhaps that is why the first gospel, Mark, was not written in finished form until almost 100 years after Jesus died and rose. Perhaps only then could the early church feel strong enough ... Ernest A. Fitzgerald, How To Be A Successful Failure (New York: Atheneum, 1978), pp. 6-8. 4. As told by Bruce McLeon, City Sermons (Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Welch Publishing Company, 1986), pp. 69-71.
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Carl Jech
... teaching everything in metaphors, in figures of speech. There is, however, clear imagery of drinking the blood of Jesus in Matthew and Marks’ accounts of the upper room: "Drink of it all of you; for this is my blood of the (new) covenant." Following tradition ... And yet Jesus offers something that is even more real, more important than flesh and blood. The sense of what Jesus says in John 6:51-55 is this: "My body is more real than flesh; my blood is more real than any earthly drink!" The great theologian ...
1188. Managing Our Memories
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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Leonard W. Mann
... much life-energy is drained off by our hanging onto what should be turned loose. There is a good word for us in Job 11:6: "Forget the misery and remember it as waters that pass away." Clara Barton was once reminded of an injury cruelly inflicted upon her by someone ... it is important in the management of our memories that we practice remembering the right things at the right times. It is a mark of personal discipline to be able to call up from the past that which will be most helpful in the present moment. When ...
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... with an asteroid large enough to cause mass extinctions, as probably happened 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs vanished."6 Others theorize that the poles of planet Earth at one time may have existed along what is presently the equator ... to work for God’s creation, not against it, to work with the Creator, in order to bring creation unto perfection. Baptism marks this aspect of the Covenant. It commits us to environmental awareness and responsibility. If through Baptism we enter God’s Covenant, it ...
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Bill Bouknight
... as Savior and Lord regard ourselves as learners, being taught daily by the Holy Spirit. Look with me at Luke, chapter 6, beginning with verse 12. At this point early in Jesus' ministry, he had perhaps seventy-five to one hundred disciples who ... witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." (Heb. 12:01) Here is a third implication of Christian discipleship: You Are Called To Be Christ-Extenders. St. ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... ; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.’ " A woman was filling out an employment application. When she came to the line marked "age," she hesitated a long time. Finally, the personnel manager leaned across his desk and whispered to her, "The longer you wait, the worse ... realize that the power of God is not available to them for selfish exploitation. The words in the next verse, then, (Hosea 6:1) indicate the response that God longs for: "Come, let us return to the Lord." With bold faith, the people turn ...
1192. What Do You See?
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
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Barbara Brokhoff
... , unbelievable, unending, undying love illuminates the Savior. This love is represented by the horizontal cross-arm of the cross on which he died. Love that reaches how far? Mark Spitz, the Olympic swimmer who won seven gold medals for the United States, says that in training for the games he swam the distance of twice around the ... season have taken Lesson I for each Sunday from the Book of Acts, with two exceptions - Easter Sunday, Series B, is Isaiah 25:6-9 and Easter Sunday, Series C, is Exodus 15:1-11.
1193. Laborers Needed for the Harvest
Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42
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Dennis Kastens
... 16:18) His final commission to his disciples was, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." (Mark 16:15) The men to whom he spoke had virtually no wealth, no social position, no prestige, no extraordinary talent; nevertheless they ... overtly active in their faith. (This ratio dates back to the 500 persons who saw the resurrected Lord in 1 Corinthians 15:6, only 120 of whom were present on the day of Ascension.) Then if only 250 million Christians were to share Christ successfully ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... of a constantly unfolding life. You cannot exhaust God; there is always another level. Now that I am getting older, I find comfort and reality in some lines from Mark Connely’s play, Green Pastures. Old Moses stands alone on Mt. Nebo. He watches as young Joshua leads his people across the Jordan, far below. The old man sighs: " ... ask askance, where does it come from then, this alleluia light? What shakes this room?6 "What shakes this room? What makes new life possible? Nothing! Nothing, but God - birth!"
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Robert G. Tuttle
... suddenly there in the distance you see - yes, you do see it - a narrow parallel line of lights. Are you mad because those lights mark a runway that is narrow and straight? No! You breathe again and thank God. The straight and narrow runway means life. You can fly ... of life" with others. People care about me; God cares. If those I admire most would be happy about this, the answer is "Yes!" 6. What will it do to my after self? Is this the kind of person I want to become? Maybe it makes little difference now, ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... in my life? What are some of the means by which I could move toward a deeper commitment?" "Do I recognize the fact that joy is the mark of Christ? And if I do not have that joy ... am I coming to grips with whatever there is in my life that is shutting me ... to be alert to the opportunities that come our way to share our faith. We are called to be Christ’s ministers to others."6 And someday we will see the great completion of our lives - that, until that moment, had been a mystery. We are a shepherd people ...
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Leonard Mann
... Then there is a fourth dimension which I would characterize as the militant dimension of Christian faith. Paul speaks of it in Ephesians 6:11-12. He says, "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the ... Bible again and accept the fullness of its content; to see Jesus Christ, not as just an image of theologians but as Matthew and Mark and Luke and John portrayed him, walking and living in the midst of people, grappling with evil, showing compassion to those who were ...
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Harold Warlick
... fairly certain that it is of exceptional clarity and veracity to them. The writers of the synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, fall into this phenomenon. Some of their stories are disputed by each other. On some they ... created a church, not a mob, and issued a warning to his disciples: "Woe be it unto you when all men speak well of you." (Luke 6:26) Admittedly, it is hard to ward off the temptation to manufacture Christianity in today’s world. Jesus saves. Indeed, Jesus saves. But many have found ...
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Leonard Mann
... and son of former President Theodore Roosevelt, was shot down in battle, and killed. His father wrote the inscription to mark his grave, and here is the inscription Theodore Roosevelt wrote: "he has outsoared the shadows of our night." It ... . How much I wish each of us could have the eye-opening experience of Elisha’s servant. Remember that story from 2 Kings, chapter 6? The servant believed the armies of his people to be hopelessly surrounded by the overpowering hosts of the enemy. As he was wailing about ...
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Leonard Mann
... to him, "I have no silver and gold, but I give you what I have; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk" (Acts 3:6 RSV). And the lame man walked. As a result of this episode on the temple steps, the authorities at Jerusalem arrested Peter and John. Examining their ... destroyed by fire. In that fire his wife and four children had died. In a Wilmore cemetery stands the unusual gravestone which marks the common burial place of those five most dear to him. But out of that tragic loss, and as a result of ...
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