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Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Benjamin Franklin

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Christopher Lasch

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Graham Greene

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Henry George

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Luc de Clapiers

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them

Ralph Waldo Emerson

183. Wrong by Association, Right by Jesus

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... parents, to thwart Jewish customs, to defy Temple leadership, to engage in proclaiming a narrative that most around them felt to be ridiculous, outlandish, or simply dangerous. Being a disciple of Jesus was a risky business. Some thought he was a reckless revolutionary, some a dangerous provocateur, some a misguided rabble rouser, others downright crazy. Following this out of the box rabbi had started as fun, but now it was getting to be questionable, risky, and could threaten their own well-being, their ...

184. Righteous Woman

Genesis 38:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... (and Judah) in hand, the way she wrenches a future for herself out of the clutches of male oppression masquerading as religious propriety. She doesn't whine about her circumstances or quietly resign herself to her situation -- she goes out and wheels and deals, recklessly risking all, and thus suggests a new sort of righteousness. You've got to hand it to Tamar. One of you was telling me about your home church. You said it was conservative, you said it was a ''Bible-believing'' church, a church taking ...

185. Revolutionary Rules For Living

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... us to live with the adventurous faith that defies the world. It means follow-the-leader of purity and heart holiness, not the cadence of the culture of leadership of today’s society. It is an abandonment of lifeless mundane living to a life of reckless joy that comes as Jesus breaks the forces of evil and sin in our lives! How does his revolutionary thought coincide with ours? What should we do with his concepts? Revolutionary principle number 1: Love your enemies (Luke 6:27a). Ouch! Love my enemies? This ...

186. God's Bouncer or God's Ambassador?

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... of others? Read through the book of Acts and one message is abundantly clear: God’s love is greater than our limitations. God’s plan is greater than our prejudices. The host of a religious talk show was interviewing a man who had lived a rough and reckless life until he became a follower of Jesus Christ. As he told the story of his spiritual journey, he continually thanked God for changing his life. This caused the talk show host to make an interesting comment, “You know what I've noticed?” she said ...

187. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... people think of themselves, the more they will need others to think something of them. The less we approve of ourselves, the more we'll do anything for the approval of others. A leading cause of death among adolescent boys in America is daredevil, reckless acts which are meant to demonstrate courage and macho to a world which they hear saying: Show us what you have. Prove your manhood. Earn it. Paul tells the Romans: do not be conformed. How is it possible? That little rag-tag, conglomeration of Gentiles ...

188. Dying, We Live

1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Sermon

Will Willimon

... we're called to live and die by is one of risk confronted, death embraced. What's more, Jesus calls us to walk the narrow way, take up a cross with him, daily. It's terribly risky business. Ask that bright company of martyrs who quite recklessly parted with goods, security, then life itself, preferring to be faithful in death rather than safe in life. But it's also terribly adventuresome, terribly invigorating. We are, in a world with nothing better to do than cling to this life as his disciples, given ...

189. Will God Be With Us?

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... blamed Moses if he had chosen to quit? Would you have blamed God if He had given up on us? It must have been tempting to both Moses and God to throw up their hands and to walk away. They had endured the complaining and the idolatry and the recklessness of the Israelites for long enough. God was giving Moses a way out. “It’s okay, Moses. You don’t have to lead these stiff-necked people anymore. I’ll withdraw my presence from them, but everything will work out fine for you.” But Moses said to the ...

190. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... with helping her achieve her goals. She recalls a fellow amputee, Matt Melancon, who visited her in the hospital right after the accident. One piece of advice he gave her has fueled her recovery: “Don’t for one second long for what you were, but recklessly pursue what you can become.” Christy’s faith in God also motivates her to help others in need. She has served as a foster mother to numerous children. She works with fellow amputees, helping them to deal with the challenges of their new life. And ...

191. Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 14:1-35

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... verse also introduces the next development in thought (14:16–18). In carefully considering their “steps,” the wise display their reverence for God by making a wide detour around evil (14:16a; cf. 3:7; 4:27). Fools, however, exhibit reckless, uncontrolled behavior, which is conduct the uncorrected, naive person naturally inherits (14:15a, 16b–18a). The prudent, in contrast, easily acquire knowledge to augment their skill set for dealing with life’s challenges (14:18b; cf. 14:6b, 15b). Proverbs 14 ...

192. Famine of the Heart

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... complaining about it, throwing verbal and visual arrows Jesus’ way! So, in Jesus’ usual style, instead of launching into a set of precepts, he began to tell a story. We call this story, “The Prodigal Son.” Prodigal because the son in question recklessly and carelessly spent his entire inheritance on frivolous things. Son, because no matter what he did, he remained his Father’s son! As it turns out, the particulars of this title will be important to the story! The question? Who is experiencing the ...

193. Where the Roots Take Place

Matthew 13:1-23

Illustration

Jim Somerville

Fred Craddock tells a story about the time he got a phone call from a woman whose father had died. She had been a teenager in one of the churches he had served as pastor twenty years before, and he would have sworn that if there was ever a person who never heard a word he said, that teenage girl was it. She was always giggling with her friends in the balcony, passing notes to boys, drawing pictures on the bulletin. But when her father died, she looked up her old pastor, the Rev. Fred Craddock, and gave him ...

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Showing all results

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Benjamin Franklin

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Christopher Lasch

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Graham Greene

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Henry George

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Luc de Clapiers

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them

Ralph Waldo Emerson

183. Wrong by Association, Right by Jesus

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

184. Righteous Woman

Genesis 38:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

185. Revolutionary Rules For Living