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201. The Art and Agony of Patience

James 5:7-10

Sermon

Heather Sugden

... what patience meant to an expectant Mary, visited by angels and traveling with her husband to Bethlehem under the weight of an emperor’s census and all the hope of an entire people. Perhaps it is impossible to imagine patience in any sense other than the sensation of the years, days, hours, and moments that stretch out before us and demand our attention. Patience is often spoken of as a gift that falls from the sky or is pulled out from a deep hidden reservoir within ourselves. But patience is never a ...

202. Peace in War

Illustration

Donald Cantrell

A Kentucky mountaineer fighting overseas in WW1 kept getting nagging letters from his wife back home. He was too busy fighting to write letters, even to his wife. At last, angered by his wife’s scolding letters, he sat down and wrote her: “Dear Nancy: I been a-gittin yore naggin letters all along. Now I want to tell ye, I’m tired of them. For the first time in my life I’m a-fightin in a big war, and I want to enjoy it in peace as long as it lasts.”

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