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Revelation 22:1-6

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Leonard Sweet

... than the counsel of an Advocate. The Paraclete brings with it Jesus' ultimate gift: the presence of his peace, the peace that Paul said passes all understanding. No wonder Jesus specified in today's gospel text that the peace he promised his disciples wasn't the kind of peace the world gives. Worldly peace is achieved for only moments at a time. Worldly peace is enforced by the threat of the sword. Jesus promised his peace to all who loved and obeyed him, a peace that comes from the vital indwelling of the ...

2252. Are You Living the Three Advents?

Romans 13:11-14

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Leonard Sweet

... unanticipated conclusion. It is a true story about a nine-year-old named Wallace Purling. He was in the second grade that year, although he should have been in the fourth. He had difficulty keeping up, was a little slow and clumsy but was also very kind. The kids tried to exclude him from their games, but Wally hung around, ever the protector of the children at risk. Wally so hoped to be a shepherd with a wooden flute in the nativity play that December. Miss Lumbard, however, assigned him a minor speaking ...

2253. A Personal Testimony

Luke 2:1-7

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Russell N. Gallimore

... Sir, you've got to have room!” Angrily I jumped up and shouted at him [arise from stool], "I don't have to have anything. I've already told you I can't take care of you, so beat it! I've gotta get some rest!" But patiently and kindly he responded, "Sir, please…my wife is “expecting” a baby right away. We’ve tried everywhere. All the rooms are full. Can’t you give her someplace? Please?” Looking closer, I noticed that the young man spoke the truth about his wife, and then I began to really feel ...

2254. A Personal Testimony

Luke 2:1-7

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Russell N. Gallimore

... Sir, you're got to have room!” Angrily I jumped up and shouted at him [arise from stool], "I don't have to have anything. I've already told you I can't take care of you, so beat it! I've gotta get some rest!" But patiently and kindly he responded, "Sir, please…my wife is “expecting” a baby right away. We’ve tried everywhere. All the rooms are full. Can’t you give her someplace? Please?” Looking closer, I noticed that the young man spoke the truth about his wife, and then I began to really feel ...

2255. Blue Highway Blessings

Ephesians 1:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... deposit or down payment, or in contemporary Greek, an engagement ring. God has gifted us with a first installment of God's kingdom that we're invited to experience every day of our lives. When we're living life in the Spirit, we live a both/and kind of existence. On one hand our real life, our full inheritance as God's children, awaits us. Yet real life begins now. Because we already have the Holy Spirit in our midst, we're privileged with foretastes of the future, glimpses and glimmers of heaven, sometimes ...

2256. The World's Greatest Cover Up

Romans 4:1-25

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Leonard Sweet

... strutted on stage, passed along to the next highest bidder. At one recent auction a young couple in front of me seemed to have typified the new multi-cultural, equal-access dream of the twenty-first century. She was Filipino, he was Georgian (the Atlantan kind, not the Russian kind). You could tell it was their first auction. There were giddy from their first bidding on a brass crib, which they won for $550. They started bidding on lot #GC145. I looked to see what was up for sale. It was an English manor ...

2257. Jesus' Forty Days, and Ours

Matthew 4:1-11

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James McCormick

... to do all those things? It occurs to me that sometimes the voice of the majority is the same as the voice of the devil. I’m convinced that at least part of the temptation, the testing, was to listen to the voice of the people and to become that kind of Messiah. It would have been far easier and more popular for Jesus simply to go along, and to become an earthly king. But, that’s not the choice he made. Listening to the voice of God, he rejected the urging of the people and embraced an image given by ...

2258. It Was for Us

Luke 23:26-43

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James McCormick

... it all, he continued to love. And, amazingly, he looked down at the very ones who nailed him to the cross and prayed for them, and for us. He prayed, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” There at the cross we see an amazing kind of love. We see a love that absorbs wrong, that bears wrong, and bears it in such a way that it takes it away. The good news is that “As far as the East is from the West, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” “Father, forgive them ...

2259. Under New Leadership

John 1:29-34

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King Duncan

... have.” (2) We need to be careful whom we call successful. Success in some areas of our lives can mask deep problems in other areas. That’s the first thing we need to see. Here’s the second: True success depends on whether who we are measures up to the kind of man or woman God created us to be. There is a scene in another movie, Field of Dreams, that speaks to this point. The main character in the film goes to a small town to find Archie Graham, a character based on a real life ball player. Following a ...

2260. A New Attitude

Matthew 17:1-13

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King Duncan

... must change our liking. But we do have the power to choose. I want to challenge you today to look at your life. Is there some area in which you need an attitude adjustment? Whether it is giving up a long-held resentment, or treating a spouse with more kindness, or whatever your need might be, this is the time. Peter wants to build three shelters and stay on that mountain. While he is still speaking, a bright cloud envelopes them, and a voice from the cloud says, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am ...

2261. Christmas 1

Mt 2:13-23 · Heb 2:10-18 · Isa 63:7-9 · Ps 148

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