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126. Giving and Receiving

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... insertion of our energies into a given situation. We always question Peter's good sense to know when to do what — that stands for the ability to recognize what time it really is, and thus know what is appropriate to do or let be done in a given moment. My hunch is that all of us need a little bit of Peter in ourselves to step out into the unknown and walk to the one calling us. I do not know anyone who is perfectly developed in all of these areas, and one of the creative uses to which we can ...

127. Commitment Beyond Calculation

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

William G. Carter

... ." That is not literally true, of course. In terms of quantity, many people in that line put a lot more money in the temple offering. Certainly she has earned a reputation through the centuries as a good example of sacrificial giving. Yet I have a hunch this anonymous woman would be embarrassed by the recognition she has received in thousands of stewardship sermons. The fact is, this woman is one of the nameless saints in the Gospel of Mark. She stands in the same company with two other anonymous women. The ...

128. The Train Stops Just in Time

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Editor James S. Hewett

... in the middle of the tracks and waving its arms. The engineer grabbed for the brakes and brought the train to a grinding halt. He and his fellow trainsmen climbed out to see what had stopped them. They could find no trace of the strange figure. On a hunch, the engineer walked a few yards farther up the tracks. Suddenly he stopped and stared into the fog in horror. A bridge had been washed out and had fallen into a swollen stream. If he had not heeded the ghostly figure, the train would have plunged into the ...

129. Third Day

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of depression. And in 1868, before the time of antidepressants or mood stabilizers, you couldn’t do much about it, except stick it out and wait for the wave to pass. One day, Webster’s friend, writer Sanford Bennett, came by and found him quietly hunched over his desk, a dark mood clearly clouding his countenance, and Bennett kindly asked him if he was alright. Webster replied, “I will be by and by.” At those words, Bennett exclaimed, “You know, that phrase would make a great song –in the by and ...

130. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Intuition. The ability to understand something without the use or need of conscious reasoning. According to Psychology Today, intuition is your brain on autopilot. It is nonconscious thinking, a form of reflexive reasoning.* Many of us have gut instincts, hunches that we follow, suspicions that we can’t explain or evade. Police do it. Detectives do it. Scientists do it. Everyone in daily life uses intuition without even realizing it. When you meet someone, you have an intuition sometimes whether ...

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Anonymous

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

Fred Rogers

134. Ordinary Tragedy

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Pilate, but by a maid, a woman working the night shift. While we worship, dozens of these maids clean the floors of this university. Nobody who's noble works the night shift. Jesus plays out his own drama with Pilate, in the courtroom above. But down here, in the dark, hunched around a fire, in the cold courtyard, is our drama, our tragedy. Peter is no King Lear or Prince Hamlet. He is us. His fall from his perch will not be far, but it is a descent each of us knows and full well. It may not be much of ...

135. What's a Human Book?

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , then further afield to buildings, mountains, the sky. They break into ecstatic smiles or cry with pent-up relief. Some get up to dance. “In a moment, the patient starts looking ten years younger. They come into the eye camp led by someone, hunched, withdrawn, and they leave walking upright, beaming and proud.” (3) Isn’t that beautiful? “. . . they leave walking upright, beaming and proud.” Don’t you think the crippled woman left the synagogue exactly like that? It’s sad to me that we don’t ...

136. Disabled

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... just like to misuse the word and give it a new understanding. So in the new PCV (Politically Correct Version), Jesus is presented with a woman who has been disabled by some psychological disorder, addiction, or pervasive habit. Her demon of disability had her hunched over for eighteen years, and it seems no one could help her get straightened out (no pun intended). Jesus was teaching in one of the local synagogues at the time and couldn’t help but notice the woman and her prominent malady. Unlike other ...

137. The Big Move!

Matthew 4:12-23

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John Jamison

... this Jesus from Nazareth didn’t dress funny, and he didn’t run around ranting and raving. He seemed to have an uncanny understanding of the old books, and of the law. He was different and that got the attention of those very powerful people. My hunch is that they had sent people to Nazareth to check this guy out. Nazareth was small enough that these visitors would not have gone unnoticed, and when they walked into the café in the morning the entire room went silent. Jesus would have known about them ...

138. Dealing With Difficult People

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... doozies! The problem is that there was no class in seminary on how to deal with difficult people. Along the way, I have made mistakes--and, through those mistakes, I have gained some life-changing wisdom about dealing with difficult people. I have a hunch you would like to hear this wisdom I have learned. Perhaps you are tired of listening to that overbearing family member who belittles everyone. Maybe you work with someone in the office who gossips about everyone -- and he is driving you crazy. Maybe you ...

139. The Challenge Of Simplicity

Matthew 5:1-12

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John Jamison

... ... can you hear the distractions: the interpretations of that simple statement? Hey, I’m just here where I live. I don’t have the power to make countries quit fighting. I’ll vote for the person I think might do that, but what else can I do? My hunch is that there are still a few opportunities for peacemaking within our reach such as broken relationships. Remember, Jesus didn’t say that we’re blessed if we do our best to be polite, or if we say that we’ll stop calling that other person names, or ...

140. A Good Name

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . "I'm not," said a friend of mine. "I was in college with him. He had no morals then. I'm sure he has even less now." His was an everyday observation of character, or the lack of it. What will they say about me at sixty? I have a hunch it will be something based upon who I was at twenty and so will it be for you. “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,...”

141. The Inverting Promise

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 · Genesis 25:21-34

Sermon

Will Willimon

... --and destabilizing us in the process. In Rebekah's womb, early, in the primal darkness, cosmic, international purposes are being worked out. In the clash of two all too typical brothers, God is dismantling conventional systems of power distribution. And I have a hunch, though an unscientific one, that the majority of us here--students, faculty--are older brothers, so to speak. That is, most of us are fortunate from birth. The cards were stacked in our favor, the stars were right, society blessed us with ...

142. A Lamp Shining In a Dark Place

2 Peter 1:17-21

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Will Willimon

... turn out between us and God, as if to say that the story has no ending, as if you and I are still living the story. “To be continued,” is the last word of every Bible story. And that's one reason why we love the Bible. We have a hunch that it's our story. We read about David, we think of ourselves at forty-five. We read of the drunkenness and debauchery of the Philistines, we think of Friday and West Campus. We hear how God came to lowly Mary, living anonymously in some backwater town, and women living ...

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