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76. If Only We could Be Loyal ...

Hosea 4:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16

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Wallace H. Kirby

... a wealthy couple in that small town had provided money for her college education. "In college, things began to fall apart," she continued her story. It seemed that she was incapable of maintaining any lasting relationships. She had trouble with roommates and faculty members, and became such a disturbing force on the school’s rifle team that a dismissal was the only course the instructor could take. That was the crowning blow. She withdrew from college and spent six months in California, living with her ...

77. A Noble Patriotism John D. Mauney, Jr.

Exodus 2:11-25

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"The first breath of freedom stirs the air." So exclaimed President Reagan in his address to the students and faculty of Moscow State University, as he commented on his talks with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Moscow Summit of June, 1988. Mr. Reagan went to Moscow as an agent of peace and a champion of human rights. The people of the U.S.S.R., who are enslaved under ...

78. Who is Greatest Among You ...

Matthew 23:1-39

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... experience of truth has a way of rendering words unnecessary. I think I know the feeling. When I was in college, there was on the campus a most distinguished professor. He was perhaps more esteemed and respected than any other teacher on the faculty, having received the distinguished teaching award so many times he practically owned the title. He taught religion, and, since it was a state university, all of his courses were electives; nobody was required to take any subject he offered. Yet, his classes were ...

79. Being Different

Daniel 3:1-30

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Harold Warlick

... called upon to not only love your equals and those beneath you, but to also love those more fortunate than you are, even your enemies. If you are to be a Christian, you have to possess the courage to be different and want the best. The discrepancies amaze me. We faculty want the best pay we can get. We students want in our dormitory rooms and homes the best telephone service we can get, the best food we can buy, the best television we can afford, the best car, and the best job. But we try to get by on ...

80. The Necessity Of Forgiveness

Luke 7:36-50

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Harold Warlick

... its expansive spirit that overthrows resentments, takes in enemies, embraces rivals and seeks the good in all sorts of people across all barriers that class and race can erect. Everyone in this room belongs to a group - whether the Board of Stewards, a sorority, a faculty, a church, a club, a class. What can your group do that other groups can't do? What can you as an individual do that really makes you stand out and feel good about yourself. The answer is simple - forgiveness. 1. See His Hands: Resources ...

81. The Shortest Distance Is Not A Straight Line

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Harold Warlick

None of us relishes complications. We want issues to be simple. But now the freshmen are no longer freshmen - they've got four months under their belts in college. Rush week is over so some are now in fraternities and sororities. Faculty are complaining that second term has been just as rushed and frantic as the first. Dr. Warlick isn't new anymore. People are used to Wednesday nights instead of Sunday mornings as the time for worship. Attendance patterns and the reasons for them become more ambiguous. ...

82. Growing in God's Freedom

John 8:31-41

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... someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food; for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil. -- Hebrews 5:12-14 The Peter Pans in the Letter to the Hebrews did not want to grow up. Here is an example of frozen spiritual development. Here are people who have been professing Christ for ...

83. On Mars Hill

Acts 17:16-34

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CSS

... so that a judgment might be made as to whether his teachings were the ravings of a maniac or the doctrines of someone who had a new insight into the truth. The council at the Areopagus had no official power, but it was a sort of faculty or tribunal whose decision about new tenets and teachings was held in high esteem. The council gathered in a circle around Paul to listen carefully as he presented a brief and fascinating sermon - much different in content from the presentations he made in the synagogues or ...

84. Bad Good News Won’t Sell!

Jeremiah 28:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... to an end. The class was distressed and asked what could be done about it. Was there any hope for tomorrow? Then the professor programmed the computer for an answer. It took a semester to do it. Then he brought the computer back to school. The faculty and student body came to hear the report. While TV cameras rolled, the professor pressed a button, lights flashed, wheels turned, and out came the answer: "Repent!" That is the answer that can turn bad news to good news. But do you think America will amend ...

85. Is Your Sin My Business?

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... ourselves before the mirror of the Decalogue. Then we will see how distorted and dirty we are with sin. An honest person will confess that there is not one of these Ten Commandments that he/she has not broken. Moreover, God has given us a moral faculty, a conscience, which tells us what is right in those specific areas not covered by the Decalogue. This conscience needs to be enlightened by the Spirit, and the Bible gives content to the conscience so that it may judge rightly. Above all, we have Christ to ...

86. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... Christ working within us. There is hope! But when Christian leaders are uncertain, how can youth find the way? Not too long ago, I was preaching for a week on one of our United Methodist campuses where a part of the program was a talk-back session with faculty members and students. In one of these sessions a young lady asked: "How can I understand values in a world like this, how can I tell the difference between what is right and what is wrong?" "The Ten Commandments," I answered, "are a basic help in this ...

87. BIG DADDY, J.C., AND THE SPOOK

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John H. Krahn

... Murray O’Hair was invited by the Student Christian Association to speak at a certain college in Ohio. Mrs. O’Hair will go down in history as the one who knocked prayer and Bible reading out of the public schools. Over 350 students, faculty, and townspeople gathered to hear Mrs. O’Hair discuss her views in opposition to God and religion. She lambasted everything sacred. She made fun of pastors, leaders, and church officers. She said the Bible was not infallible, and it did not amount to anything ...

88. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... and, thus, they make solid morality unpopular. Gerald Johnson wrote a biography of Woodrow Wilson. Listen to a few excerpts: "Woodrow Wilson had a way of rubbing people the wrong way ... He had an unusual share of the more distasteful virtues ... He had the unhappy faculty of being right in the most irritating sort of way."2 Awkward goodness! Woodrow Wilson was a man of brilliance and of unique world vision. He had much to do with establishing the League of Nations. If the U.S. had joined the League, the ...

89. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

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Robert Noblett

... do him until he could replace the four. "If you are so smart," replied the surprised motorist, "what are you doing in that hospital." "I may be mentally sick," came the response, "but I’m not stupid!" The human person has a tremendous regrouping faculty, and trouble in one department does not mean the other departments are rendered impotent by association. If anything, they are made stronger and more valiant! A tiny scratch on the first band of a long playing record is hardly grounds for adjudging the ...

90. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

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Robert Noblett

... or proposal and there is a contagion in the room that is uplifting, even exhilarating. But somehow two weeks or two months later what had so completely captured the fantasy seems hard pressed - terribly hard pressed - to capture those human faculties (brains, legs, arms, hearts) that will incarnate in fact what had been born in fantasy. The post launch slump happens. It happens maritally, politically, religiously, biologically and ecclesiastically. "You made a good beginning last year both in the work you ...

91. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

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Warren Thomas Smith

... the church, she did not leave her business-like resolve and know-how at the door. As the sermon is preached, she does not send her mind home to tend the roast in the oven. She brings to her church all her faculties: energy, business acumen, sensitivity, creativity, ability to get things done. Church life means more than just activity. Phoebe knows this. She is neither satisfied with surface dedication nor superficial relationships. She is the one who carefully studies the Church school lesson - whether ...

92. Invitation to a New Life-Style

Matthew 11:25-30

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John R. Brokhoff

... of service. One of the most impressive scenes in Jesus’ life is when he takes a basin and towel and washes the feet of his disciples. One Maundy Thursday this was enacted in our Seminary chapel when the Dean washed the feet of several students and faculty. It was an unforgettable experience to see the head of the school kneeling down before his "underlings" and doing this humble service. This answers the question, "What shall I do with my life?" We are here to serve, and Jesus said that he who would be ...

93. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments." Exodus 20:2-6 Last summer I was invited to lecture to a group of faculty members at one of our large Southern state universities. The subject I was to speak about was the role of ethics in the Old Testament. The purpose of the sessions was to probe the place the Scriptures could have for helping a person to shape a pattern ...

94. The Vicarious Servant

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Donald Macleod

... with the little man on it?" Some years ago while fulfilling an engagement at St. Olaf’s College in Northfield, Minnesota, I was invited to visit a small room in the library where there was a display of many miniature crosses made by one member of the faculty. Along with the group of visitors was the distinguished Roman Catholic Cardinal Willebrands of the Netherlands who paused before a crucifix, that is, a cross with the model of the body of Jesus on it. He pointed out to me that the empty cross of the ...

95. In the Eleventh Hour

Mark 14:32-42

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Larry Powell

Several years ago, Dr. Claude Thompson, distinguished member of the faculty at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, received the report from a team of physicians that he had only a short time to live. Each day, each moment, became precious to him. No movement was without meaning, and his words were chosen carefully. He knew he was going to die. ...

96. I Love A Parade

Matthew 21:1-11, John 12:12-19

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Robert Allen

... a Ph.D. in theology, he was a world-class musician, and concert halls around the world were sold out when he went on tour. Then, to the surprise of everyone, he decided he wanted to go back to school. Not to teach as a member of the faculty, but to earn yet another doctoral degree. This third doctorate that he received was in medicine. As soon as he had his medical degree, he left the comfortable surroundings of Western Europe and went into the jungles of Africa. There he cleared away part of the jungle and ...

97. Stewards and Our Bodies

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and failing to practice good diet. With all that science has discovered in our day about diet, exercises, and so forth, we can take care of our bodies better than ever before. Overworking and overstressing our physical bodies and our mental faculties are also ever-present dangers. The wrong use of medication and abuse of drugs, including alcohol, become a religious issue as well. For many who can easily practice moderation, I doubt there is anything wrong with a drink or a prescribed tranquilizer ...

98. Tuesday in Holy Week

Isaiah 49:1-7, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, John 12:20-36

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Paul A. Laughlin

... acts of weakness and folly. In the name of the crucified Christ we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession All-compassionate God, it saddens us to have to admit how consistently we try to be our own redeemers and saviors, desperately relying upon our human faculties and abilities rather than upon you and your salvation. Forgive us our arrogant self-reliance, and humble us before you. That we will be able to open ourselves up to the salvation freely given in Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen Gospel: John ...

99. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

... is no darkness at all or shadow of turning, we who live in the twilight zone of knowledge come to you for clarity of mind and purpose. Sometimes we have congratulated ourselves for humankind's educational progress. We have pointed to our learned faculties, our hallowed campuses, our impressive libraries and laboratories. Yet, what are all these but feeble glimpses into the light of thy truth, O God. Your foolishness is wiser than all the Phi Beta Kappa wisdom ever collected. The intelligence of our most ...

100. An Old Plan For New People

Genesis 17:1-27

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Larry Powell

... murky and grey, the light almost gone from them, I have a notion the old fellow squinted in first one direction, then another ... focusing upon nothing in particular, simply surveying the reality of things around him in order to stabilize his wearied faculties. Some things are not immediately absorbed. Why now, and why in this way? Who of us has not stood at some pivotal, transitional point in life, asking, "Why now, and why in this way?" An unexpected development alters our direction. Unusual circumstances ...

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