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1. Many Ways To a Good Grade

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Tim Hansel

Here's an example of uncommon creativity in a story, actually a modern parable, originally told by Alexander Calandra: Sometime ago, I received a call from a colleague who asked if I would be the referee on the grading of an examination question. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed he should receive a perfect score and would if the system were not set up against the student. The instructor and the student agreed to submit this to an ...

2. Give Me Back My Bite

John 2:13-22

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Richard J. Fairchild

The story of Jesus cleansing the temple with a whip reminds me of the old eastern story about a snake that lived on a path on the way to a famous temple in India. Many people would walk along the path to worship, and the snake would often bite people with his poisonous bite. One time a swami was on his way to the temple and the snake jumped out to bite him, but before the snake could bite him the swami put the snake into a trance and ordered him to stop biting people. "It is not right to bite people with ...

3. Do You Know the Way to Emmaus?

Luke 24:13-35

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David E. Leininger

Do you know the way to Emmaus? It should be relatively easy to find because the text locates the town "seven miles from Jerusalem." But no one has ever been able to identify an "Emmaus" seven miles from Jerusalem. Perhaps there is confusion because two different numbers appear in ancient manuscripts at the point at which Luke gives us the location. Some texts say "60 stadia," and others say "160," which works out roughly to be either 7 miles or 18 miles. Although there are indeed many references to Emmaus ...

4. Love Isn't Love Till You Give It Away

John 21:15-25

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Brett Blair

One night in New York, on Broadway, the great star Mary Martin was preparing to go on stage, as she had a 1000 times before, in Rodger & Hammerstain's South Pacific. Just before she took stage a note was handed her. The letter was signed Oscar Hammerstein who was that evening on his deathbed. The note was short. It simply said: “Dear Mary, A bell’s not a bell until you ring it. A song’s not a song until you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay. Love isn’t love till you give it away.” When ...

5. The Law of the Spirit

John 13:34

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Brett Blair

We need our laws. Laws tell us what is acceptable behavior and what is unacceptable behavior. To be sure, society will fail if it's people reject law. But law can only go so far. It can dictate to us what we can and cannot do but it is powerless to dictate to us what we think and what we feel. When Jesus says, "A new commandment I give to you," I want you to hear those words within the context of community law. When the disciples, or the Jews, talked about Commandments they were discussing laws for ...

6. Words From a Father

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John Trent

Recently, I heard a touching story which illustrates the power that words have to change a life. A power that lies right in the hands of those [reading this article]. Mary had grown up knowing that she was different from the other kids, and she hated it. She was born with a cleft palate and had to bear the jokes and stares of cruel children who teased her non-stop about her misshaped lip, crooked nose, and garbled speech. With all the teasing, Mary grew up hating the fact that she was "different". She was ...

7. Getting Back to Work

Luke 17:1-10

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Brett Blair

Rabbi Harold Kushner tells a wonderful story about a bright young man, who was a sophomore Stanford pre-med student To reward him for having done so well in school, his parents gave him a trip to the Far East for the summer vacation before the start of his junior year. While there he met a guru who said to him, "Don't you see how you are poisoning your soul with this success oriented way of life? Your idea of happiness is to stay up all night studying for an exam so you can get a better grade than your ...

8. The Parable of the Five Brothers

Luke 16:19-31

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Joachim Jeremias

The first point is concerned with the reversal of fortune in the after-life (vv. 19-26), the second (vv. 27-31) with the petition of the rich man that Abraham may send Lazarus to his five brethren. . . [Jesus places] the stress is on the second point. That means that Jesus does not want to comment on a social problem, nor does he intend to give teaching about the after-life, but he relates the parable to warn men who resemble the brothers of the rich man of the impending danger. Hence the poor Lazarus is ...

9. The Only Place We Have No Fear

John 1:6-8, 19-28

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King Duncan

Pretend something like this happened for a moment: The angel Gabriel got back to heaven and rushed up to God and said, "I've got good news, and I've got bad news." And God said, "Well, give me the good news first." "The good news is," said the angel, "mission accomplished. I've visited those people you told me to visit. I told them what you told me to tell them. And it's all accomplished." God said, "So what's the bad news?" "The bad news," the angel said, "is that those people down there on earth are ...

10. Love One Another - the Hospice Movement

John 13:31-38

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John R. Steward

There is a special hospital in London for those whom other hospitals consider a lost cause. It is a hospital for those who are diagnosed as "terminal." Most people would consider such a hospital to be a very sad place, but it is not. Actually, it is a hospital filled with hope and a lot of life. The emphasis in this London hospital is on life and not on death. The truth is that several of the patients have seen remissions in the disease process instead of death. A great deal of the credit is given to the ...

11. Born to Greatness

Luke 13:10-17

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Editor James S. Hewett

There was a certain man who went through the forest seeking any bird of interest he might find. He caught a young eagle, brought it home and put it among the fowls and ducks and turkeys, and gave it chicken food to eat even though it was the king of birds. Five years later, a naturalist came to see him and, after passing through the garden, said ‘That bird is an Eagle, not a chicken.' ‘Yes' said the owner, ‘but I have trained it to be a chicken. It is no longer an eagle.' ‘No,' said the naturalist, ‘it is ...

12. Who's the Boss?

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Editor James S. Hewett

A farmer's boy decided to get married. His father said to him, "John, when you get married, your liberty is gone." The boy said he did not believe it. The father said, "I'll prove it to you. Catch a dozen chickens, tie their legs together and put them in the wagon. Hitch up the two horses to the wagon and drive into town. Stop at every house you come to, and wherever you find the man is boss, give him a horse. Wherever you find the woman is boss, give her a chicken. You'll give away all your chickens and ...

13. Muggeridge Encounters Mother Teresa

Mark 12:41-44

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Brett Blair

In 1970, a man by the name of Malcolm Muggeridge went to Calcutta to do a special documentary on Mother Teresa for BBC-TV. Muggeridge then was Europe's Tom Brokaw. Well, on that fated morning of their meeting (a morning that would change him the him for the rest of his life) he met her as she was working out in the streets with sick and poor people in a ghetto like he had never seen before, amid stench, filth, garbage, disease, and poverty that was just unbelievable. But what struck Muggeridge more than ...

14. Walking in Our Shoes

John 1:1-18

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John Claypool

When I was a very young minister and had not yet myself been initiated into the fraternity of grief, I remember being called once to minister to an old farm widow. Her husband had just died, and I went with all my earnest intent to be as much comfort as I could to her, but I had never lost a significant person in my life. Most of my knowledge of grief was abstract and academic, and so I went and said the best words I knew to say. I tried to convey my care, but while I was doing that, there came into the ...

15. Brave Enough to Take It

Luke 24:36-49

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Brett Blair

There is story told out of Persia about a General who had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between the firing squad and the big, black door. As the moment of execution draws near, the spies are brought to the Persian General, who asks the question, "What will it be: the firing squad or the big, black door?" One spy, faced with this dilemma, hesitated for a long time. It was a difficult decision. He chose the firing squad. Moments later shots rang out confirming his execution. The ...

16. All This You Did for Me

Luke 23:33-43

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Burton F. Blair

The Archbishop of Paris assumed the pulpit of Notre Dame Cathedral. He was there visiting to preach a sermon, and his sermon was built around a single story. Thirty years earlier, he told, there were three young tourists who had come into this very cathedral. All of the young men were rough, rude, and cynical persons, who thought that all religion was a racket. Two of these men dared a third to go into the confessional box and make a made-up confession to the priest. The two bet that the third young man ...

17. Everyone Is Invited

Matthew 22:1-14

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Bill Bouknight

The writer Drew Duke recalled from her childhood her second grade Valentine's Day party. Several days earlier a big decorated box had been placed at the front of the room by the teacher. It had a slit in the top. Each student had been invited to bring valentines addressed to friends and to drop them into the box. Then on Valentine's Day, one student was designated by the teacher as the postman to distribute the cards. Earlier that week Drew's mother had bought a package of 35 valentine cards. Drew asked ...

18. Are You a Philosopher?

John 12:20-33

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Maxie Dunnam

Two men went up in a hot-air balloon one May morning. Suddenly they were enveloped by clouds and lost track of where they were. They drifted for what seemed like hours. Finally the cloud parted, and they spotted a man below them on the ground. "Where are we?" one of the passengers hollered down. The man on the ground looked around, looked up at the balloon, looked around some more and then yelled back, "You're in a balloon." The two balloonists looked at one another and then one of them yelled down again ...

19. Kierkegaard’s Story of the Prince

John 3:16, 16:5-33; Mt 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

We affirm a belief in the Son, Jesus Christ. We say that God took on human form, came and lived among us, suffered the same trials that we suffered, experienced the same feelings that we experienced. Jesus was purely human and purely divine. Jesus was not God. Jesus was God incarnate. There is a difference. Jesus never drew attention to himself but always pointed to God. Soren Kierkegaard, the great Danish theologian of another century tells a story of a prince who wanted to find a maiden suitable to be ...

20. Playpen Pleading

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King Duncan

Ray Steadman gives the following illustration: The grandfather entered the child’s bedroom. A wide grin brightened his kind, warm face. “Davy!” he said, spreading his arms for a hug. “Grampa!” shrieked the delighted two-year-old from his playpen. “Grampa, hug!” “Sure, I’ll give you a hug, Davy,” said the grandfather. And with that, the old man reached out to his grandson and scooped him up out of the playpen, snuggling the boy in his strong arms. After a big hug, the grandfather set the boy down outside ...

21. We Interrupt This Service

John 1:1-18

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Brett Blair

It was question and answer time at the worship workshop. Pastor and Author Thomas Long had been speaking on the theme of worship all morning to a group of people gathered in a church fellowship hall in a suburban neighborhood in Indiana. Dressed in sweatshirts and jeans, they had given up a Saturday of golf and gardening to sip coffee and listen politely as he rambled through discussions of Vatican II, Calvin's view of the Lord's Supper, the pros and cons of children's sermons, the development of the ...

22. Christ's Life Changed Culture

Mark 1:21-28

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Brett Blair

Kenneth Woodward writing in Newsweek magazine gives us a glimpse of what Christ's coming meant to the world. He writes, "Whether we like it or not, Christ's life radically changed human culture throughout the world. Before Jesus came, the world was ruled by the ‘might makes right' theory. But Jesus' teaching about humility and turning the other cheek redefined our views of human character, of war, of masculinity. Jesus' commitment to the poor, to women and children opened the way for civil rights and ...

23. Gollum's Riddle

Mk 13:1-8; Lk 21:5-19

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Brett Blair

In the Hobbit by JRR Tolkein Bilbo Baggins has met Gollum for the first time. Bilbo is lost and needs to find his way out of Gollum's cave. Gollum will show him the way out if he can answer a riddle. This thing all things devours, Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stone to meal;| Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Bilbo is stumped. He doesn't know the answer to the riddle and after being pressured by Gollum says, "Give me time." Gollum hears the word " ...

24. Our Deepest Values

Luke 4:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

Dan Louis, of The United Methodist Reporter, told about an experience he had one morning while listening to a radio talk show. He said that the announcer informed the listeners that the tenth person to call in that morning would receive $1,000 in cash, the ordinary ploy used by many stations to build their listening audience. In a few moments, sure enough there was a winner. The announcer immediately "went live" and began interviewing the young woman on the phone. "What's your name? Do you realize you've ...

25. There Is Always More Need

Matthew 14:13-21

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Roger G. Talbott

You know how the disciples felt when the crowds showed up... The two of you haven't had a night out without the kids in weeks. You finally get away. The waiter has just brought your appetizer when the baby-sitter calls and tells you the youngest has a high fever and has started throwing up. You've been planning this vacation for six months. Your reservations are all made and three days before you are scheduled to go your mother calls and says your Dad is going to have a quadruple bypass as soon as the ...

26. Number One on the List

Mt 6:31-34

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Brett Blair

Ivy Lee (1877–1934) was an American publicity expert and worked as a consultant for a number of businesses. One of those was for Charles Schwab, who was then president of Bethlehem Steel. Schwab was obsessed with efficiency and wanted Bethlehem Steel to become more productive. Ivy Lee was brought in. Schwab asked: “Show me a way to get more things done.” Lee: “Give me 15 minutes with each of your executives” Schwab: “How much will it cost me?” Lee: “Nothing. Unless it works. After three months, you can ...

27. Upside-down Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

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J. B. Phillips

J. B. Phillips, in his book When God Was Man (Nashville: Abington, 1955), gives an upside-down version of the Beatitudes: Happy are the pushers, for they get on in the world. Happy are the hard-boiled, for they never let life hurt them. Happy are they who complain, for they get their own way in the end. Happy are the blase, for they never worry over their sins. Happy are the slave drivers, for they get results. Happy are the knowledgeable men of the world, for they know their way around. Happy are the ...

28. New Doors Will Open

Luke 24:13-35

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Wayne Cordeiro and Robert Lewis

David Livingstone, the famous nineteenth-century missionary and explorer, was eager to travel into the uncharted lands of Central Africa to preach the gospel. On one occasion he arrived at the edge of a large territory that was ruled by a tribal chieftain. He was instructed to stop at the perimeter and wait. According to tradition, the chief would come out to meet him there. Livingstone could go forward only after an exchange was made. The chief would choose any item of Livingstone's personal property that ...

29. Obedience

John 14:15-31

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Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck wrote about having the meanness parents in all the world: I had the meanest parents in all the world. When I was seven years old they dared to spank me just because I told them I would not do what they asked me to do to help around the house. My friend next door never got spanked. He didn't have to help at home. He had nice parents. I had the meanest parents. I had to eat all my broccoli and carrots before they would ever let me have dessert. My friend next door never had to eat vegetables. He ...

30. The Ability to Hear - Listening

Acts 2:1-41

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Will Willimon

Communication, an ability to hear, to know what other people "are getting at" and "where they're coming from," has got to be one of the chief characteristics of the effective pastor. I want to be a good communicator, a skillful preacher. Yet before that, I know that I must be a good listener. As someone has said, "A preacher must listen for six days a week -- listening to God and to the hopes, fears, and aspirations of the congregation -- for the right to speak one day a week." I agree. Yet our modern ...

31. The Healing Power of Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 5:21-43; Matt 9:1-8

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Brett Blair

As Matthew's story begins this morning, Jesus, the great physician, is on his way to make an emergency house call. There was a little girl who was in a grave state and her father implored Jesus to come. We are told that a large crowd of the curious followed Jesus. Some were hoping he would succeed, others that he would fail; most probably got caught up in the excitement of the parade. In this throng was one woman who was there for quite a different reason. We are told that for twelve years she had been ...

32. The Messiah Is Among You

Matthew 10: 24-39

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William White

There was a famous monastery which had fallen on very hard times. Formerly its many buildings were filled with young monks, and its huge chapel resounded with the singing of the choir. But now it was deserted. People no longer came there to be nourished by prayer. A handful of old monks shuffled through the cloisters and praised God with heavy hearts. On the edge of the monastery woods, an old rabbi had built a tiny hut. He would come there from time to time to fast and pray. No one ever spoke with him, ...

33. The Discipline of Simplicity

Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30

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Richard Foster

In Richard Foster's book Celebration of Discipline he divides discipline into three parts: Inward, Outward, and Corporate discipline. He places simplicity under the category of the Outward Disciplines. Here are his nine ways to order our world so that we can create simplicity in our life. First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status Second, reject anything that is producing an addiction in you. Third, develop a habit of giving things away. Fourth, refuse to be propagandized by the ...

34. Our Value in God's Eyes

Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30

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A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of two hundred, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 bill to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the $20 bill up. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now ...

35. We Cannot Not Be Sinners

Mark 6:14-29

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Scott Hoezee

Most people are loathe to admit that they are just generally bent toward the bad, inclined to do it wrong. So when the Christian tradition declares to any and all, "You are a sinner," most people these days reply, "What did I do?" If sin exists at all, it is merely episodic, an occasional (and inexplicable) "lapse" from our better nature, which is at bottom "pretty good." How foreign is the notion articulated by theologian Emil Brunner. Brunner once noted that we can, in principle, avoid any particular sin ...

36. Cut It Out

Mark 9:38-41

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Donald B. Strobe

The analogy of an operating room, where radical surgery must be performed, is a most useful way to understand this Scripture. Most of us today would accept the notion that the whole body is worth more than any of its individual parts, and when we develop a cancerous tumor on eye, hand, or foot, we cast aside "the offending member" — with regret, of course; but we operate on the assumption that it is better to enter life without the diseased organ than not to live at all. If a troublesome organ hampers our ...

37. "A" Priorities

Luke 10:38-42

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David E. Leininger

A time management guru, a professor in the business school at Harvard, speaks about A, B, and C priorities, and then he notes that too many people spend too much of their time on the C priorities! And then he asks, "Why do you think that is?" The answer is that the C priorities are, first, much easier to accomplish, and, second, give you the impression that you are actually getting something done. In other words you can keep busy with the C priorities all day and never get to the more important things. The ...

38. Real Gratitude

Luke 19:1-10

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James W. Moore

A young college student who was visited one weekend by his father at a prestigious college in the East. The father had an old dilapidated car. When the dad drove away to go home, some of the boy's friends began to laugh and tease and make fun of that car. The young man said, "You can laugh if you want to, but let me tell you something. My father could have had a new car years ago if he had wanted one. He had the money to buy it, but he wanted me to have an education at this school more than he wanted a new ...

39. Redeemed, Redeemed, Redeemed!

Matthew 24:36-51

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Brett Blair

A.J. Gordon was the great Baptist pastor of the Clarendon Church in Boston, Massachusetts. One day he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously. Gordon inquired, "Son, where did you get those birds?" The boy replied, "I trapped them out in the field." "What are you going to do with them?" "I'm going to play with them, and then I guess I'll just feed them to an old cat we have at home." When Gordon offered to buy them, the lad exclaimed, " ...

40. The Language of God

Matthew 5:13-16

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Billy D. Strayhorn

There was a mother mouse who decided to teach her children about the world. So she gathered all of her little mice and set out for a walk. They walked down the hall and turned to the right. Then they went down the hall and took another right. And suddenly they found themselves in front of the family cat dozing in the sunlight. The mother mouse was scared. But she didn't want to give in to her fright. So she signaled to the children to be very quiet and to follow as she began to tip toe quietly and slowly ...

41. Loving Others

John 14:15-31

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Keith Wagner

When others do things that go against our beliefs they become very difficult to love. And yet, Jesus tells us that loving others is what he expects of us. Love is the essence of our faith. It is to be unconditional, sacrificial and never ending. But, let's be honest, there are times when loving others is not easy. Shoot, with some folks it's hard to get to "liking," much less loving! Take the story of the Berlin Wall when it had just been erected. In the early days of the famous Wall, hostilities flared ...

42. All Together

Acts 2:1-13

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Keith Wagner

A while ago, there was a special on the PBS channel about three families who lived on the prairie. It was an experiment to see whether or not 21st century families could live the way people lived in the 19th century. Their mission was to plant crops, raise animals and prepare themselves for the upcoming winter. At that point they were evaluated and then returned to their normal lives. Following the experiment they were interviewed and everyone commented on how much time they spent together. Since there was ...

43. Merciful Anger

Matt 21:18-22; Mark 11:12-19

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James Packer

Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath and saw a man with a crippled hand. He knew that the Pharisees were watching to see what he would do, and he felt angry that they were only out to put him in the wrong. They did not care a scrap for the handicapped man, nor did they want to see the power and love of God brought to bear on him. There were other instances where Jesus showed anger or sternness. He "sternly charged" the leper whom he had healed not to tell anyone about it (Mark 1:43) because he ...

44. When God Created Fathers

Ephesians 6:1-4

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Erma Bombeck

When the good Lord was creating Fathers he started with a tall frame. And a female angel nearby said, "What kind of Father is that? If you're going to make children so close to the ground, why have you put Fathers up so high? He won't be able to shoot marbles without kneeling, tuck a child in bed without bending, or even kiss a child without a lot of stooping." And God smiled and said, "Yes, but if I make him child-size, who would children have to look up to?" And when God made a Father's hands, they were ...

45. Wakeup Call

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Staff

In the heyday of the New York Yankees, manager Joe McCarthy once interviewed a coach being brought up to the majors from a Yankee farm team. "How much do you know about psychology?" McCarthy asked. The coach said he had studied it in college. "So you think you're good," said McCarthy. The coach replied: "I don't know how good I am, but it's a subject I've studied." "All right," McCarthy said, "I'll give you a test." McCarthy said that a few years before he'd had a problem and had gone to Frankie Crosetti, ...

46. Thinking Out of the Elevator Box

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Brett Blair

When facing a problem, we should try to look outside the box for solutions. We should try "detours and reversals," anything that will give us a different angle from which to ponder solutions. To illustrate, here's a story about a problem faced by executives of a large company. The company had moved into a new skyscraper and discovered that the builder apparently had not put in enough elevators. Employees were disgruntled because there were long waits for the elevators, especially at both ends of the ...

47. God Breaks into Our Lives

Mark 9:2-9

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King Duncan

William Boggs' grandfather played a very important role in his life. Grandpa Boggs had been blind for nearly twenty years. Grandpa would tell you quickly that the way the world was going he didn't much care to see it anyway. He did have one regret however. He had never seen his grandson. Sensing death closing in on him, William's grandfather began praying more intensely for the Lord to give him sight, just long enough to see his grandson before he died. The doctors had told him that it was an impossibility ...

48. Birth and Death

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Editor James S. Hewett

It seems to me that a good analogy for death is birth. The child, before birth, must certainly feel secure and safe. The environment, however limited, is warm and comfortable. The unborn infant knows what to count on in its existence. Birth must seem like death to the child, being thrust in such a traumatic way out of the comfortable and known. We would say to the child, if it were possible, that it is all a part of the plan. We would assure the child that there was even more love, and even grander ...

49. Can't vs. Can Do Attitudes

Philippians 4:10-20

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Unknown, Edited by Brett Blair

CAN'T CAN DO We've never done it before...............We have the opportunity to be first It's too complicated...........................Let's look at it from a different angle We don't have the resources............Necessity is the mother of invention It will never work...............................We'll give it a try There's not enough time...................We'll reevaluate some priorities We already tried it.............................We learned from the experience There's no way it will work ...

50. Specifications for a Husband

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Ruth Bell Graham

When Ruth Bell was a teenage girl going off to Korea for schooling from her childhood home in China she fully intended to be a confirmed old maid missionary to Tibet. But she did give the thought of a husband some serious consideration. She wrote the following list of particulars: "If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said, he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm ...

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1. Many Ways To a Good Grade

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Tim Hansel

2. Give Me Back My Bite

John 2:13-22

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Richard J. Fairchild

3. Do You Know the Way to Emmaus?

Luke 24:13-35

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David E. Leininger

4. Love Isn't Love Till You Give It Away

John 21:15-25

Illustration

Brett Blair

5. The Law of the Spirit

John 13:34

Illustration

Brett Blair

6. Words From a Father

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John Trent

7. Getting Back to Work

Luke 17:1-10

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Brett Blair

8. The Parable of the Five Brothers

Luke 16:19-31

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Joachim Jeremias

9. The Only Place We Have No Fear

John 1:6-8, 19-28

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King Duncan

10. Love One Another - the Hospice Movement

John 13:31-38

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John R. Steward

11. Born to Greatness

Luke 13:10-17

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Editor James S. Hewett

12. Who's the Boss?

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Editor James S. Hewett

13. Muggeridge Encounters Mother Teresa

Mark 12:41-44

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Brett Blair

14. Walking in Our Shoes

John 1:1-18

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John Claypool

15. Brave Enough to Take It

Luke 24:36-49

Illustration

Brett Blair

16. All This You Did for Me

Luke 23:33-43

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Burton F. Blair

17. Everyone Is Invited

Matthew 22:1-14

Illustration

Bill Bouknight

18. Are You a Philosopher?

John 12:20-33

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

19. Kierkegaard’s Story of the Prince

John 3:16, 16:5-33; Mt 28:16-20

Illustration

Brett Blair

20. Playpen Pleading

Illustration

King Duncan

21. We Interrupt This Service

John 1:1-18

Illustration

Brett Blair

22. Christ's Life Changed Culture

Mark 1:21-28

Illustration

Brett Blair

23. Gollum's Riddle

Mk 13:1-8; Lk 21:5-19

Illustration

Brett Blair

24. Our Deepest Values

Luke 4:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

25. There Is Always More Need

Matthew 14:13-21

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Roger G. Talbott

26. Number One on the List

Mt 6:31-34

Illustration

Brett Blair

27. Upside-down Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Illustration

J. B. Phillips

28. New Doors Will Open

Luke 24:13-35

Illustration

Wayne Cordeiro and Robert Lewis

29. Obedience

John 14:15-31

Illustration

Erma Bombeck

30. The Ability to Hear - Listening

Acts 2:1-41

Illustration

Will Willimon

31. The Healing Power of Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 5:21-43; Matt 9:1-8

Illustration

Brett Blair

32. The Messiah Is Among You

Matthew 10: 24-39

Illustration

William White

33. The Discipline of Simplicity

Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30

Illustration

Richard Foster

34. Our Value in God's Eyes

Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30

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35. We Cannot Not Be Sinners

Mark 6:14-29

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Scott Hoezee

36. Cut It Out

Mark 9:38-41

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Donald B. Strobe

37. "A" Priorities

Luke 10:38-42

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David E. Leininger

38. Real Gratitude

Luke 19:1-10

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James W. Moore

39. Redeemed, Redeemed, Redeemed!

Matthew 24:36-51

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Brett Blair

40. The Language of God

Matthew 5:13-16

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Billy D. Strayhorn

41. Loving Others

John 14:15-31

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Keith Wagner

42. All Together

Acts 2:1-13

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Keith Wagner

43. Merciful Anger

Matt 21:18-22; Mark 11:12-19

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James Packer

44. When God Created Fathers

Ephesians 6:1-4

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Erma Bombeck

45. Wakeup Call

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Staff

46. Thinking Out of the Elevator Box

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Brett Blair

47. God Breaks into Our Lives

Mark 9:2-9

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King Duncan

48. Birth and Death

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Editor James S. Hewett

49. Can't vs. Can Do Attitudes

Philippians 4:10-20

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Unknown, Edited by Brett Blair

50. Specifications for a Husband

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Ruth Bell Graham

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