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1. Details Make the Difference

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Horace Bushnell

... , no enthusiasm of purpose, can dispense with. Thus, if a man conceives ...

2. Ingredients of Good Government

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Michael P. Green

... had no choice but to dispense with one of those three, which ... you were then forced to dispense with one of the two that ...

3. History of Christ the King Sunday

John 18:28-40, 1 John 2:15-17

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Brett Blair

... nations who thought they could dispense with God, and that their religion ...

4. A Chance Encounter

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Officer Jim Heimerl, a Minneapolis policeman, was taking part in a 16.3 mile run in Grantsburg, Wisconsin. Jim was four miles into the race, in a cluster of runners not far off the pace of the leaders, when two deer ambled out of the woods and onto the road. The startled buck, no doubt distressed to find himself in the middle of a human marathon, began zigzagging wildly through the runners. Jim didn't even see the animal until the two of them collided and sprawled together onto the asphalt highway. Jim ...

5. A Joke for Your Trash

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A city in the Netherlands had a problem with litter. The sanitation department tried doubling the littering fine and even increasing the number of litter agents who patrolled the area, but to no avail. Then someone suggested that instead of punishing those who littered, they could reward people who put garbage in trash cans. A plan to devise a trash can that could dispense coins when litter was inserted was rejected as too expensive. But it led to another idea: the sanitation department developed a trash ...

6. FERRYMAN

2 Samuel 19:18

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Stephen Stewart

... black river Styx. We have dispensed with his services today, but we ...

7. Doomsday Prophets

Matthew 25:1-13

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Steven A. Peay

In the early part of the nineteenth century a farmer by the name of William Miller began reading his Bible with an eye to the book of Revelation. He came to the conclusion in 1818 that in 25 years or so, probably in March, the second advent of the Lord would come. He got ordained, started preaching, and many followed him especially in the area of upstate New York he came from which was dubbed the "burned over district" since the fires of revival had burned there so often. March of 1843 and of 1844 came and ...

8. Mystery on Ice

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Norman Strevett

A woman complained to the service manager of an appliance firm that the push-button ice maker and dispenser on the door of her new refrigerator was popping ice cubes on her kitchen floor-all by itself. A serviceman could find nothing wrong with the appliance, but the woman continued to complain that ice cubes were littering her kitchen. Finally, a supervisor arrived, determined to stand watch in the kitchen until the mystery was solved. He had been there about an hour when a German shepherd entered, stood ...

9. Double Dipping

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A farmer went each week to the Farmers' Market to sell, among other things, the cottage cheese and apple butter made on his farm. He carried these in two large tubs, from which he ladled the cottage cheese or apple butter into smaller containers the customer brought. One day he got to market and discovered he'd forgotten one ladle. He felt he had no choice but to use the one he had for both products. Before long he couldn't tell which was which. That's the way it is when we try to dispense the good news of ...

10. Stewards of the Ship

1 Cor 4:1

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Michael P. Green

First Corinthians 4:1 tells us to be “stewards of the mysteries of God” (rsv). If you have ever been on a ship, you know what a ship’s steward is. Or if you have ever been on an airplane, you know what a steward or a stewardess is. That person does not own the airplane or anything on the plane. The company owns everything, but he or she is entrusted with its care. That steward has been given the responsibility of taking the goods that belong to a higher authority and dispensing it to the people for their ...

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1. Details Make the Difference

Illustration

Horace Bushnell

... , no enthusiasm of purpose, can dispense with. Thus, if a man conceives ...

2. Ingredients of Good Government

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... had no choice but to dispense with one of those three, which ... you were then forced to dispense with one of the two that ...

3. History of Christ the King Sunday

John 18:28-40, 1 John 2:15-17

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Brett Blair

... nations who thought they could dispense with God, and that their religion ...

4. A Chance Encounter

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5. A Joke for Your Trash

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6. FERRYMAN

2 Samuel 19:18

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Stephen Stewart

... black river Styx. We have dispensed with his services today, but we ...

7. Doomsday Prophets

Matthew 25:1-13

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Steven A. Peay

8. Mystery on Ice

Illustration

Norman Strevett

9. Double Dipping

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10. Stewards of the Ship

1 Cor 4:1

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Michael P. Green

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