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Antonyms: deficient, imperfect
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Children's Sermon
Mark A. Hultquist
... 's paintbrush, a completed painting, paints, and a blank canvas. Lesson: I thought we would do some painting today. I brought along a lot of supplies that we will be needing. Now here is a painting that has already been completed. Isn't it beautiful? The artist did such a great job on the detail and the blending of colors. It probably took a lot of time for that to be completed. Our problem is that we don't have very much time here. In fact, we have only a couple more minutes before this part of ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... name. From Chicago to East Lansing the viewers were at it. Who is this person who declares God can speak through him or her? Is the person a man, woman, or a myth? Is the person a saint or a sinner? Are we talking to a conversion artist or a con artist? Are you a spiritual shepherd or an ecclesiastical pimp? A missionary or a mercenary? Are we receiving tithes and offerings or just stealing in the name of the Lord? At some point in life we have to address these issues. What better place than in discussing ...
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Robert Beringer
... hands of Jesus were raised as if in a gesture of command. The great Danish sculptor finished his work and then left the statue to dry in his studio overnight. But the sea mists and fog came in that night and worked a strange change in the artist's handiwork. When the sculptor returned, he found the head of Christ fallen forward and the hands outstretched in a gesture of love and entreaty. In his heart Thorwaldsen knew what words he would place in the inscription beneath the statue: "Come unto me, all that ...
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Helen Keller
... so does the Metropolitan show the myriad facets of the human spirit. Throughout the history of humanity the urge to artistic expression has been almost as powerful as the urge for food, shelter, and procreation. And here, in the vast ... able to review a fraction of that great world of art which is open to you. I should be able to get only a superficial impression. Artists tell me that for a deep and true appreciation of art one must educate the eye. One must learn from experience to weigh the merits of ...
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Donald Zelle
... , "No Exit"! We have that emotion rise up in us as we go through personal tragedy, or as we see the results of a war, or as we view the photographs of the early arrivals of the allied forces to Dachau and Auschwitz. There are artists who have expressed this despair in other ways. Rock musicians belt out the hopelessness of life. Christians sing about earth being a "desert drear." Picasso expressed it in his famous painting, "Guernica," showing grotesque bits and pieces of human beings torn apart by warfare ...
131. Beasts, Saints and Chaos
Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14
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Paul W. F. Harms
... to stay. As the tour proceeds, suddenly music fills the air. Lights are dazzling. A parade is underway. "For whom?" inquires a tourist. "For a general?" answering her own question. (We just love our wars.) "No," is the answer. "For an artist?" (There are times when we venerate our artists.) "No." Again the reply. "Ah, I should have known. It's for a bishop." "Most certainly not," is the reply. "Your own experience should have told you that. It's for Mrs. Smith of Golders Green." "Why for her?" "Because for ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... to stop and look at ourselves in relationship to Jesus. Simply by being who he was, he always and inevitably shows us what we are. I've never been to Rome, but I've read about the art galleries in the Vatican. Paintings by the world's master artists are there. From time to time, a group of art students goes to the galleries, each with his or her own easel and paints. They sit before those great pieces of art, making copies with painstaking care. Some of the students possess real ability, and, when taken out ...
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... player who can sit down and have the freedom to play the most difficult music almost at sight. It looks easy. I admire jazz artists who have the freedom to tootle their horns and tickle the keys all over the musical map, making up new melodies on the spot ... learning to count and run through the scales and then to drill and to drill and to drill. Only by working at the piano is the artist free to play the piano. When we first moved to St. Paul, 1-94 wasn’t finished between the Twin Cities. As a newcomer it ...
Children's Sermon
... is something there, but until that cloth is removed, you don’t know what it is. This is the way an artist gets ready to show everyone his painting or that a man who makes things out of clay or metal keeps it hidden until he wants people to see it. It ... remains hidden until just the right time and then, when the artist chooses to let people know what he has done, he takes off the cloth. This is somewhat the way in which God speaks to men or ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... the whole persons their creator envisioned. The prophet felt led to go to the potter’s house. There he watched the craftsman working at his wheel, shaping and reshaping lumps of clay, until they turned into objects of beauty. Jeremiah must have wondered why the artist would often start over again with a pot or jar that looked perfect to the observer. We can imagine that the sensitivity of the potter’s eye and fingers awed the prophet, and that he was deeply impressed by the potter’s control over the ...
Sermon
... to stay. As the tour proceeds, suddenly music fills the air. Lights are dazzling. A parade is underway. "For whom?" inquires a tourist. "For a general?" answering her own question. (We just love our wars.) "No," is the answer. "For an artist?" (There are times when we venerate our artists.) "No." Again the reply. "Ah, I should have known. It’s for a bishop." "Most certainly not," is the reply. "Your own experience should have told you that. It’s for Mrs. Smith of Golders Green." "Why for her?" "Because ...
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Paul Hegele
... . Given a Garden of Eden, we still want to be "as Gods." Janitors want to be foremen, foremen want to be managers, managers want to be chairmen of the board. Think of the Sunday afternoon artist who secretly hopes to become a professional painter. But the professional painter dreams of having her painting in museums. And the artist whose works are in a museum longs to be called a new Picasso. I don't even dare mention the ambition of a buck private in the army. He would need eighteen promotions in rank ...
138. Painting Out the Lace
Illustration
Staff
You are familiar, no doubt, with one of the most famous paintings ever done by any artist. I refer to "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, that classic portrayal of Christ and the ... were immensely impressed by the delicate design of that lacework. They studied it intensely and praised it highly. Upon seeing the reaction of these young men, the artist took up a brush, dipped it, and made a few long strokes across the canvas, obliterating the lace. Then, with uncontrollable feeling, he shouted, "Now, you ...
139. Christmas 1
Psalm 111:1-10, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Galatians 3:26--4:7, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23
Sermon Aid
... Christmas, Year A, in our living room. A painting hangs on the north wall of the room, done in batik by a Chinese artist who escaped from mainland China to Taiwan; it tells the Epiphany story. A walled Chinese city forms the background, the landscape is bare ... Bethlehem and Jerusalem to take refuge from Herod in Egypt - is, for us, the baby Jesus. Whether or not this was the intent of the artist, I do not know; it might be a rendition of his own escape from a city in China, his way of telling part of the story ...
140. The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Isaiah 25:1-12, Psalm 23:1-6, Psalm 135:1-21, Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Philippians 4:2-9, Philippians 4:10-20
Sermon Aid
... television special, "The Man who Lived at the Ritz," about the Nazi Hermann Goering's stay in Paris, an American artist who is also a resident of the Ritz Hotel is hired by Goering to evaluate his pilfered art for its authenticity and to make ... certain that none of the other Nazi leaders diverts any of his holdings to themselves. The artist becomes a spy for the underground when he observes Nazi cruelty at work in Paris, and sees it especially in Goering. But ...
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David M. Oliver
... seems inviting after six weeks of the "too much syndrome." Let us take the idea of a "thin" place in our minds and journey down the coast of Europe to Rome, Italy. The image of another kind of "thin" place was depicted for us by the artist Michelangelo when he painted the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Perhaps some of you have seen it or seen pictures of this majestic work of art. In one scene, Michelangelo depicts God reaching with a strong, outstretched arm toward Adam, the first human. Adam is ...
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Dennis Kastens
... also concerning the lesser values and treasures in life. A few of you perhaps have had the privilege of visiting Rome to view some of the world’s most splendid artistic productions in sculpture, canvas, and architecture. While there, perhaps you saw what is regarded by some as the most outstanding of all artistic expressions, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel done by Michaelangelo. What many people do not know is that he suffered beyond imagination while producing that unparalleled masterpiece. In the ...
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George Bass
... is a fitting work of art for the magnificent church that is named for the Virgin Mary. Luke, according to Scripture, was a physician and a companion of Paul as well as, tradition tells us, an artist and one of the seventy commissioned by the Lord for the first evangelism effort of the church. But it is chiefly as an artist with words - a consummate story teller - that we remember him on the traditional date of his death, October 18. He may have healed people and ministered to them as a physician, and he may ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... and gentlemen, if you have any questions, I shall be glad to answer them". One lady spoke up: "I wish you would tell me what brand of polish is used to keep these floors so shiny." An artist and a lumberman stood together watching a sunset paint the landscape. "It is glorious, isn’t it?" said the artist. "Yes," said the lumberman. "I figure that allowing for cutting and hauling, it ought to work out to about eighty cents a foot." Have you ever heard someone say: "I have never been able to understand why ...
145. The Importance of Unity
1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Sermon
Hubert Beck
... -arching concern or theme. There is room for much variation of opinion and feeling when one is seeking unity, so long as all that variation is given over to the achievement of the common goal, the adoration of the common center of all these variations. Artists, for example, may have great differences of opinion about how to paint, about styles of work, about color and texture and a host of other things they are concerned with. But their unifying theme is the love - the adoration, if you will - of good art ...
Drama
Tom Eberle
... modern art you wouldn’t appreciate it because it doesn’t have any recognizable forms. And you, sit, probably would have told the artist to save the effort and just type out on a piece of paper what he wanted to say. The two of you were given a picture to ... look a - a message received by Mary. But you have been so busy arguing about the way the artist has painted it you haven’t even taken a look at the message. Male: Which means that I really am right - you aren’t for ...
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Leonard Mann
... , and he is Lord, and they are not. There is at least one very important difference between a painting and a photograph. The photograph is an actual reproduction of a scene; the painting is the artist’s interpretation or impression of it. The photograph is a record of what is actually there; the painting is what the artist sees as being there. Of course we have no technique by which we can photograph the future. You cannot photograph what isn’t there, and the future isn’t - yet. But we can certainly ...
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Leonard Mann
... a standard by which ypu can properly relate to reality. Without a point of reference you don’t know where you are. Without a guiding star you can easily become very, very lost. On the easel of a landscape artist was an array of precious stones - ruby, sapphire, emerald. Someone asked the artist why those stones were always there, and he answered, "These are my color reference, lest my memory fail, my eye lose its sense of tone, and my colors fade." Why do musicians use pitch pipes and tuning forks? You ...
149. Who Is This Jesus?
Colossians 1:15-23
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Bill Bouknight
... of the world will be our central focus, God will slough us off like shucks of corn. But if we recover our focus on Christ above all, this tired denomination can once again become a vibrant vanguard of the Kingdom of God. In 1495 the Florentine artist Leonardo DaVinci began to paint his immortal vision of the Last Supper. Working slowly and with great care for detail, he spent three years completing the painting. When he had finally finished he called a trusted friend to see it. "Give me your honest opinion ...
150. Treasures You Can Share
1 Corinthians 14:13
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... you and I might call modern art. The colors are beautiful, and they go together very nicely, but what does it mean to us? The artist knows what it means but that does nothing for you and me. We can’t tell what the painter is trying to describe. The only ... is if the painter were here and could tell us what he felt when he painted the picture. Even then I am sure that the artist would tell you that it could mean something different to each of us. That is one kind of painting. There are many different kinds of ...
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