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1. The Narrow Gate

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

John G. Lynch

... to their murderous ways. But God had a new discovery in store for him. God was leading Alex to his wide path. The young American found the palace, a small, stylish structure recently used by the communists as an office for some department of the Proletariat. He wandered through the grounds, peeking through this portico, squinting into that dark corner, trying to find the key to why they had murdered the notorious Rasputin here: trying to catch the flavor of the place the way it was when they had killed him ...

2. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

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Louis H. Valbracht

... real and practical? Let's look at a couple of places in our world. The Communists say that the cure for oppression and injustice in the world is the death of capitalism, the end of private property, and the establishment by revolution of the rule of the proletariat or the worker. That is sheer, unmitigated idealism! It's about as practical as a straw hat in a blizzard or a tuxedo in a steel foundry. Is it workable? Ha! What happens? The whole Communist theory fails to take into account the fatal flaw that ...

3. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

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Louis H. Valbracht

... with the boys, and yourself cries out: "No! NO! You can’t do this to me! I’m being embezzled! You can’t sell me short!" Carry, for instance, Communistic dialectical materialism to its logical conclusion, and this is what it says: "In the rule of the proletariat, everyone is well-clothed, well-fed, well-housed and even well-amused." THIS is the goal in life? You reach that point, and the self looks around and asks: "Well, now what? Where do we go from here? Certainly there’s more to it than this ...

4. Why We Need the Pledge of Allegiance

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

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Wayne Brouwer

... to the individualism and private spirituality of a privatized religion, and sees in Jesus' words a socially transforming message. In 1917, while the kingdoms of this world were at war, while revolution stalked Russia and set up a dictatorship of the proletariat, while labor strikes were sweeping across North America, Walter Rauschenbusch delivered four addresses at the Yale School of Religion. He had been pastor at the Second German Baptist Church in a suburb of New York City politely called "Hell's Kitchen ...

5. Samuel Was the Search Committee

1 Samuel 15:34-35, 16:1-13

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William J. Carl, III

... and the arrogant — the quintessential example of the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It was the divine reversal in action as if God had actually written the story. It was liberation theology brought to fruition, the triumph of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie set in the context of a monarchial drama, an incredible conflation of political images. It was, in Reinhold Niebuhr's terminology, the transvaluation of values. Of course, when I was six years of age I didn't think all that. I ...

6. Where's God?

John 16:12-15

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David Coffin

... all of these advances, Niebuhr saw Henry Ford the automaker exploiting his workers in dirty factories and for low wages. At first, Niebuhr was attracted to the Marxist system of government or community owned industries. He thought maybe the worker or the proletariat should be in charge of the economic means of producing wealth. Later, he saw the Soviet Union’s abuse and exploitation of its workers and farm laborers. Some even suggested that the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin murdered and abused far more of ...

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