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151. Palm · Passion Sunday

Isaiah 50:1-11, Psalm 31:1-24, Matthew 27:11-26, Matthew 27:32-44, Matthew 27:45-56, Matthew 21:1-11

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... of Kafiristan to seek their fortunes, it is almost like Jesus' entry into Jerusalem; they are accepted as gods, and Dan is acclaimed king, Peachey his prime minister. Dan is a benevolent ruler until he decides, against the advice of Peachey, to take a wife for warmth and companionship during the long, cold winter. The girl he picks out is resistant to his idea and bites him; he bleeds, therefore he cannot really be a god - "gods do not bleed." A revolt ensues and Dan goes to his death when a suspension ...

152. White, The color of purity, holiness

Luke 2:1-7

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... a Christmas even worse than this. When I was a boy, we had a Christmas of weather eighteen below, and six feet of snow. The wind was blowing and drifting the snow." He went on to describe a bitter cold day, but one on which much warmth and love was shared among family and friends. This conversation prompted several thoughts in my mind as I considered this Christmas festival. First of all, though the weather outside is frightful, inside, with all of you it’s so delightful! Today, with our modern ways of ...

153. Proper 6

Matthew 9:35-38

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... , and wholly unworthy of being a part of your holy family. We claim your name and that of the Christ, but more often than not we bring shame upon it by our thoughts, our words, and our deeds. Forgive us, O God, and extend to us once again the nurturing warmth of your motherly care, which loves the unlovely, accepts the unacceptable, and brings hope to the hopeless. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen

154. Do You Believe In Easter?

Luke 24:1-12

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Bill Bouknight

... . I will be reunited with my dear husband, my parents, and so many old friends." After several months of chemotherapy, it was clear that the cancer was winning the battle for Edith’s life. She went into the hospital. Everybody who met her was attracted by her warmth and positive faith. And if she got half a chance she would say to anyone, "Hello, I’m Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" She picked up a nickname in the hospital—"Easter Edith." But there was one person who was not attracted to Edith ...

155. Let Yes Be Yes!

Matthew 15:21-28

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... years - some of them ever! But now, here they were, bringing their children to spend precious hours of their young lives inside the walls of a parish church. The pictures on the bulletin boards, the designs in the sanctuary windows, the warmth the pastor and the secretary shared with them, all spoke important messages. In time some of those children started coming to that congregation’s Sunday School. Some of their parents started coming back on Sunday morning, to discover how the congregation worshiped ...

156. Suffering for Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

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Dennis Kastens

... "thirty-nine good soldiers for Christ, and thirty-nine martyrs and thirty-nine crowns." Suddenly there was the sound of running feet. One of the Christians was coming to shore. Peering into the darkness, the sentry saw him heading for the bathhouse and its warmth. At that moment, something happened in the heart of the sentry. The sentry jerked off his armor and called to the form running toward the warm bathhouse, "Here take my clothes! I’ll take your place." So, stripping his garments, the sentry ran to ...

157. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

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Robert Bachelder

... each to his own continent. We are, all of us, children of God, implicated in the one destiny of the one human family. With publicans of every time, we come here looking for God to "pierce the gloom of our sin and grief," hoping to feel on our faces the warmth of a rising sun. "Lord, have mercy," is our common prayer. And the Author of our salvation promises it will be as we ask.

158. Facing Up to a Power Problem

Acts 2:1-13

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Robert G. Tuttle

... burst of light - in "the earthquake, wind, and fire." Sometimes he comes quietly, gently, but still life changing. A shaft of light, A waft of wind, A whisper in the soul, A simple thought. A new direction, An impulse to love, A new involvment in mankind; A warmth, a fire, A joy, a peace - Thus, speaks the Holy Spirit Within my restless soul. Albert Edward Day wrote a little book, Existence Under God.1 The thesis of this book was that to be filled with the Spirit of God was not abnormal but normal. For the ...

159. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Hubert Beck

... make you dependent on them. Calloused hands enable a person with an ax to cut his wood without undue difficulty. His muscles are toned for the job, his eye and arm coordinate to make every chop count. He is "geared," as it were, for warmth - frequently rather minimal - at the expense of considerable expenditure of body energy. The person whose sole source of heat, however, is the thermostat, has become much more helpless in the face of cold. If the electricity or the gas fails, he is neither prepared with ...

160. Journey To The Cross II: Jesus And The Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

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James W. Moore

... wrote this remarkable paragraph. Listen closely. He said: “That lady drew out of me a deep and warm reaction of love. And gradually I came to realize that people are not one thing, good or bad, but many things. In every human being there is warmth, love, affection, but there is also hurt, anger, weakness. We stimulate or draw out of them one or the other. It all depends upon our approach, and our approach depends upon our attitude.” And then Father Powell writes these concluding words: “This was the ...

161. Journey To The Cross VII (Easter): Jesus And The Women At The Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

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James W. Moore

... s a great story to recall on Easter Sunday morning. According to that ancient legend, if you could find the touchstone on the coast of the Black Sea and hold it in your hand, everything you touched would turn to gold. You could recognize the touchstone by its warmth. The other stones would feel cold, but when you picked up the touchstone, it would turn warm in your hand. Once a man sold everything he had and went to the coast of the Black Sea in search of the touchstone. He began immediately to walk along ...

162. THE ART OF EXPRESSING LOVE

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John H. Krahn

The sharing of human warmth and affection is something which we all desire and need. Loving and being loved is one of the staples of human existence. Although love and physical affection enhance each other, too often the concept of love is too narrowly defined and even misconstrued when one makes physical affection synonymous with ...

163. Winners, Losers and the Gospel

Mt 16:25

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Robert Noblett

... gave the trees a bejeweled appearance. That scene of beauty is somewhat deceiving, though, because the weight of the tree limbs can become so burdensome that limbs break off. It is a blessing of nature, then, when the sun again casts its light and warmth on those ice-laden trees and returns them to erectness. People go through a similar process when they allow themselves to part company with those destructive patterns of life that are so costly and burdensome. Then, too, this insight has a different shade ...

164. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

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Robert Noblett

... us even in our diversity: In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened, through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment - the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth - until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.5 "Flowing together and living anew" - that’s what God wants for his Church and ...

165. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

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Robert Noblett

... of the ordinary than in those supposedly crucial events which Christian orthodoxy has focused upon. I find more grace in conversation than in The Word, more in my familial history than in the history of Israel, more in the cool blue of the sea and warmth of flesh than in worship. When I cease searching and striving, I am always surprised to discover the density and meaningfulness, almost radiance, that ordinary things and actions have. When the quest for salvation is laid aside, a cup of tea with my wife as ...

166. Joseph

Proverbs 10:1-32

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Warren Thomas Smith

... Father, yet the term was father, a word dear to our Savior. O Joseph, of the holy family least, A just man art thou called, and all the rest Of flaw and virtue in thy homely life Is left unnamed, to be inferred or guessed. But who can doubt thy warmth of heart, thy grace Of spirit wise, or who shall think it odd To hold thee great? When Jesus spoke to heaven, "My Father" was the name he gave to God.2 We are grateful that our’s is the blessed privilege of saying, "Father." We are sons and daughters ...

167. Food for Faith

Matthew 14:13-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... five million people who are seeking union with God by Yoga. Three million Americans belong to the charismatic movement, a desire for an experience with the Spirit. Many of these charismatics claim that the average church is cold and lacking in spiritual warmth. Add to this various heretical sects that are attracting people by the tens of thousands: Scientology and the Unification church by Moon. Why are many people spiritually hungry today? One reason is they are trying to exist on "junk food." Teenagers ...

168. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

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Leonard Mann

... may reply churlishly, "Of course I do. Why do you keep asking me?" She will go into the kitchen and dry her eyes. He said the words that he loved her, but it’s not enough to say it strictly as a fact. There has to be the tone of warmth and love to give it interpretive value to his wife. It is not enough to live just by the hard numbers or facts. Neither is it adequate to live entirely in a subjective world of one’s dreams. There are people who live in New York City with fantasies, both ...

169. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

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Herchel H. Sheets

... I was white, I received the brotherly-love smiles and the privileges from whites and the hate stares and obsequiousness from the Negroes. And when I was a Negro, the whites judged me fit for the junk heap, while the Negroes treated me with great warmth."11 When Jesus said, "Even the hairs of your head are all numbered," he did not specify one particular race or color for whom this was true. Neither was he thinking of a special social, political, economic, educational, or religious stratum. He meant to say ...

170. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

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Kent Moorehead

... find a cranny or crack to get through. So it went away. That was a pity, a very great pity. Not for the sunbeam, but for the castle. For you see, the castle was dark, and it needed light. The castle was cold and it needed warmth. The castle was cheerless and it needed comfort. And so is the mind that bars out ideas, for all ideas have a contribution to make. Therefore keep the windows and the doors ajar - intellectual hospitality. This leads us to fourth characteristic: a genuine tolerance. Not indifference ...

171. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

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Leonard Mann

... you and asking anything of you; but, Father, for my sake won’t you please grant him the forgiveness he is asking in my name?" And the Father says, "All right, Son, for your sake, I’ll do it." And he does. A wave of peace sweeps over me, a warmth arises within me, and I know that my prayer is heard. Simple drama maybe, too simple perhaps; but, O my dear friend, it is essential truth. Small wonder, then, that millions hail the power of Jesus’ name and sing of the name that charms our fears and bids our ...

172. God Stood Up

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James Bjorge

... , yet without sinning. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." In Jesus the Man I have seen God stand up and turn full face to the audience of man. All the warmth and human feeling which you miss from the back now comes into-full view. His face shows emotions and concern which add a new dimension to the concept of God. And perhaps one of the greatest revelations to man’s soul is that the God who sits on the throne ...

173. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

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James Bjorge

... Fortress Is Our God." I had a hard time withholding a resounding "Shout of Joy." For an encore a frail little black man outside the cathedral took my hand in his and in his way pronounced a benediction of the Lord. Inside my heart was pulsating with warmth. There was being born a new sense of the Communion of the Saints. The old drawbridge was now lowered and the traffic of God’s good people was welcomed across. God seems to be saying today as never before, "Trust me ... trust my people ... hold hands and ...

174. An Identity Crisis

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James Bjorge

... sorry for the feathered creatures. He thought about their plight. Slowly he went to the hall, put on his overcoat and boots, and went out the front door. He had decided to open the barn door so the birds could roost in the shelter for the night. The warmth there would be so welcome for them. He picked up the wounded sparrows and brought them to the barn hoping that the other birds would hear their chirping and follow. But they didn’t. So he thought of using the Hansel and Gretel trick of placing bread ...

175. With What Shall I Come?

Micah 6:1-8

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James Bjorge

... butterfly preserved in candlewax. An old proverb embraces that kind of giving, "The only true gift is a portion of yourself." Men have discovered through the years that when in quiet adoration they bring to the Lord the things dearest to them, a miracle of warmth melts the heart and the stars do sparkle more brightly. Men have always pondered their presentations to the Almighty. And it is not just at Christmas. Micah cried, "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high?" Then he ...

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