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Proverbs 8:1-36

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... teller, the warrior who will have the courage to tell it like it is. Not profits, but prophets are needed today. People who will speak the truth and call the culture and society into account for the shameless culture of exploitation and the dissemination of anything that will sell, particularly when what is sold destroys the capacity of our children to discern what is just, moral, and righteous. H. Richard Niebuhr in his Christ and Culture reminds us of the following: "The most vicious thing, of course ...

2. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... is a cultural hermeneutic or a biblical dynamic always closely approximating the mood, ambiance, and aesthetics of scriptural passages while coalescing them with the cultural ethos and linguistic propensities of black audiences. These portraits of the text are disseminated in the idioms which are very close to both biblical and contemporary milieu. While the structural norms of exegesis may not always be followed closely, black sermonizing emotively and aesthetically is not far from the mood and milieu ...

3. African-American Spirituality: The African's Gift To America

Exodus 3:1-22

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... sired under conditions of constant adversity. We see this problem continuing today. Many of the images of black persons in the larger media are negative. We seem virtually always to be defined as a problem rather than as a problem solver. But the negative images disseminated in the media all help to define us from a deficit perspective: as always being a people in need rather than a people of great resources. We are defined as always not quite having it together, as never fully hitting the mark, and this is ...

4. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

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Leonard Mann

... " If you are thinking of the human race, this is a rather inclusive statement; I can’t think of very many people it leaves out! And this is a statement of Jesus as he offers a summa cum laude of highest praise to one of his associates in the dissemination of truth and light. He says, "Among those who are born of women, there has not arisen a greater prophet than John the Baptizer" (Matthew 11:11; Luke 7:28). What was it that was so great about John - this son of Zacharias and Elizabeth, this leather-clad ...

5. He Rose Again

Matthew 28:1-10

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David E. Leininger

... and John would have been equally directionally-challenged because they certainly could have and happily WOULD have corrected the ladies in their error, if they had made one. One more obvious possibility: the one that the religious leaders tried to disseminate - Jesus' friends simply stole the body, re-buried it in some secret location, and began to circulate this incredible tale of resurrection, the stone miraculously rolled away, strange angelic beings saying things like, "Do not be afraid, for I know ...

6. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 6:23

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Lowell D. Streiker

... the twentieth century as an age of anxiety. Anxiety is a direct result of never knowing whom to believe, whose word is bond, whose product is dependable, which politician will keep his campaign promises, what advertising campaign is the dissemination of accurate information and what advertising is psychological manipulation. Anxiety is the natural result of fearing that my spouse will be faithless, my employees dishonest, my environment poisoned, the money in my pockets debased by inflation, the wheels will ...

7. Roll out the Green Carpet

Matthew 21:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... a lengthy sermon on proper spiritual comportment. Finally, the parrot, the lion, the swan, and the leopard disperse to the four points of the compass, to which they will bear the good news of what has happened at the lion’s court. The parrot heads, of course, to India, to disseminate the lion’s gospel throughout the region.

8. Plea for Discipline

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

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Donald Charles Lacy

... 't want to hear it in the church. All well and good, except the gospel demands that the truth be told and all Saint Paul is doing is telling the truth. Our allegiance to Christ and the church cries out for the teachings of our faith to be disseminated, as nearly as humanly possible, in all fairness. We can never provide perfect interpretations but we are not supposed to. Yet, the spirit of the law is available and it does not take a brilliant theologian to lay before us all of the help desired. The Father's ...

9. A Grayhound and a Kite

Acts 2:1-21

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King Duncan

... enabled them. This phenomenon spilled out into the streets and attracted a crowd. Remember, Jews from all over the known world were visiting Jerusalem on that day. Do you suppose that was a coincidence? Hardly. What a wondrous opportunity for disseminating the Gospel all over the known world! When these visitors heard the sound of the disciples speaking in these different languages, they were bewildered, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all ...

10. Knowledge

Genesis 3:1-19 · Psalm 90

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Will Willimon

... I was afraid." Our attempt to know more is our effort to deal with our anxiety by circumventing the reality called God. If we can just know enough, get enough government research grants, build bigger and better systems of knowledge accumulation and dissemination, we can secure ourselves, carve out some enduring significance for ourselves. "What you don't know about AIDS can kill you" says the poster on a bulletin board. See, knowledge is power to escape anxiety. The story, this old story, teaches otherwise ...

11. What Power Fears Most

Matthew 2:13-23

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Lori Wagner

... their fire will fade, for power needs fear to function. Love, unconditional love, came into the world in the person of Jesus. Like a tiny seed buried in the desert, it would take time to emerge. It would need to slowly demonstrate itself, spread, disseminate God’s silent healing power person by person, area by area, little by little until when confronted with the powers that be, it would proclaim victory from a bloody cross and change the world with its refusal to die. Nothing can kill unconditional love ...

12. Stay—Tuned

Mark 1:1-8

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David E. Leininger

... divinely dictated, even to the extent of the names at the top of the page. Think of it as material that is so highly thought of for information, for instruction, for guidance for the faithful that the church made sure it was kept alive and disseminated through lo these many centuries. That is inspiration. Enough about that. Scholars do tell us that Mark’s gospel is the earliest of the four that we find in the New Testament. There were other writings circulating in the early church before Mark appeared ...

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