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Antonyms: secret, concealment, secrecy, cover, hiding, suppression, ambiguity, mystery, secretness, covering up, cover-up, red herring, seal, veil of secrecy
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King Duncan
... says, “Stand up and lift up your heads . . . your redemption is drawing near.” That wonderful preacher Tony Campolo says that when he was growing up preachers used to scare kids by warning them that Jesus could appear at any time, and woe betide them if Jesus turned up and found them at a movie theater! Tony says he grew up with a constant fear, every time he went to the movies, that Jesus would return during the feature and he’d miss the end of the movie. (3) There are still those kind of preachers ...
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Ron Lavin
... upside down. It has happened gradually, so many of us have hardly noticed that it has happened. It is like the old story of the frog in the kettle. Put a frog in hot water and he will jump right out, but put him in cool water and gradually turn up the flame underneath the pan and the frog will slowly die without noticing what is happening. Our cultural path to death is like that. The biblical corrective for this situation of upside-down values is found in the name of God -- the great I AM. This is the name ...
3. A Restless Spirit
1 Samuel 28:1-25
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Lori Wagner
... . It starred Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, and a young and feisty Whoopie Goldberg as a “fake” medium who makes a living on conning others out of money by telling them what they most want to hear. In the movie, Swayze, killed by a treacherous friend, turns up in the medium’s parlor, and begins speaking to her, relentlessly in fact, scaring her half to death! Cause, as she admits, she never really called up anybody. It was fake. She didn’t really have the ability to call up ghosts. So when a ghost ...
4. Ecological Politics
Matthew 14:22-33
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Wayne Brouwer
... she kicked them in the shins and was coming back with a kidney punch. They turned the boat into the wind and rowed with passion. They were more than a little scared, even if they wouldn't admit it. Terror And Tightrope Walking Then, suddenly, their fear turned up the volume. Like the bow of a ghost ship emerging from a fog bank, something was aiming for them out of the storm. A phantom? Another boat about to be thrown at them by the wicked winds? A premonition of death? They were terrified. And amazed as ...
5. Surprise! Surprise!
Matthew 25:31-46
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Michael L. Sherer
... who had not come wearing masks sat down first. Then the friends of the host were invited to find seats. But while some of them did, a lot of them simply slipped out the door and drove away. But those who stayed enjoyed a sumptuous banquet. 1. God Turns up in the Strangest Places What a lucky accident that we are good friends of the architect of all creation. Or to be more accurate, what stupendous good fortune to be on his guest list for banquets. It’s an honor and high privilege to be included in his ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... in the case of World War II and eighty-seven years ago as regards World War I. How is that? In a 1994 article, "Wars' Lethal Leftovers Threaten Europeans," Christopher Burns writes: "The bombs of World War II are still killing in Europe. They turn up, and sometimes blow up, at construction sites, in fishing nets, or on beaches fifty years after the guns fell silent. Hundreds of tons of explosives are recovered every year in France alone. Thirteen old bombs exploded in France last year, killing twelve people ...
7. Panic Room
John 20:19-23
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King Duncan
... another woman. For the next twenty-two years, according to newspaper reports, the terrified Zenchenkov never once left his house. In 1969 Mrs. Zenchenkov died, and her husband went to the local police station to turn himself in. He was told that the ration cards had turned up in his desk drawer the day after he disappeared in 1947. (1) It’s amazing what fear will do to us, isn’t it? There was another man who hid in his home for 32 years. This time the voluntary imprisonment was a bit more just. Janez ...
8. God Is Like...a Lamb
Exodus 12:3-8 · Luke 22:7-20
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Kenneth L. Gibble
... might be all well and good on holidays, but school time was work time. Teachers were there to insure that lambs, even lambs as loyal as Mary’s, did not interfere with the serious business of learning. By the way, sometimes my research for sermons turns up some interesting, though not especially relevant, information. I can’t resist passing on a bit of trivia I uncovered. “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was written by one Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston, who was one of the best-known magazine editors of the ...
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King Duncan
... garden he would plant three rows of squash: squash gossip, squash criticism, squash indifference. Then he would put in three rows of lettuce: let us be faithful, let us be unselfish, let us love one another. Finally he would add turnips: turn up for church, turn up with a smile, turn up to serve others. (2) Have you ever noticed how Jesus was able to take everyday things, like flowers and gardens, and turn them into eternal truths? Jesus said, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower." Now there ...
10. Peter the Petulant
Mark 14:1-11, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:27-31
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Lori Wagner
... (lenton), a Latin word for linen cloth used in serving capacities. For the Romans, foot washing was even more a servile capacity than for the Jewish people. It was done sometimes to subjugate others to an authority. No wonder Peter recoils! But the linen cloth turns up in so many ways later. Interestingly, the soudarion or grave napkin is also a linen cloth, as is the cloth worn by one bound for crucifixion. For this, one’s tunic is also removed, and the person is only bound with that linen garment at ...
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Erskine White
... ride the city fire trucks, take entire orphanages to baseball games and whenever the city newspapers went on strike, he would get on the radio and read the Sunday "funnies" to the children. At any rate, one bitter cold winter’s night in 1935, Mayor LaGuardia turned up in a night court that served the poorest ward in the city, dismissed the judge for the evening and took over the bench himself. After he heard a few cases, a tattered old woman was brought before him, accused of stealing a loaf of bread. She ...
12. A King Worth Having
Zechariah 9:9-13
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John R. Brokhoff
... sores of India’s outcasts. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington walked down a road where soldiers were fortifying a camp. He heard a Corporal order soldiers to lift a heavy log, but each time it rolled back. Washington, with his heavy coat and large collar turned up because of the cold, was not recognized. He went up and put his weight under the log. When it was in place, he asked the Corporal, "Why don’t you help your men when they need a hand?" "Why, because I am a corporal," he explained ...
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Leonard Sweet
... in places like Latvia which used to be called the “Soviet Union:” “A village party secretary asks the parish priest: ‘How is it, Father, that when you ring your bells on a Sunday morning you fill the church, and I can’t get anyone to turn up for a party meeting.’ The priest answers: ‘Because we have been promising people paradise for 2000 years, but have never made the mistake of showing it to them.’” Or take this joke that philosophers can’t stop laughing at based on Descartes’ famous ...
14. Let The Shofar Sound!
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
Sermon
Ken Lentz
... that his people can hear the shofar. The glitz and glamour, the fast pace driven by cell phone communication, and the violence and hedonism promoted by television and film make it difficult for Americans to hear the blast of the shofar. Ash Wednesday is the moment to turn up the shofar's volume. The noise and rush of Shrove Tuesday is over. The day that begins the journey of Lent has begun. The excess of Mardi Gras is silenced. The day to clean up the party trash left on the carnival streets has come. It's ...
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King Duncan
... the holy Western Wall." Letters come from all over the world--seeking good health, debt remedies, etc. A huge number of letters arrive around Christmas and Jewish holidays. As long as anyone can remember at the post office, the letters to God have turned up at the Postal Authority's center for undeliverable mail in an industrial zone in Jerusalem. In the tiny warehouse, eight workers sort problem envelopes in various cubbyholes but there is one marked "Letters to God." Puzzled by what to do with the letters ...
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Brett Blair
... the way by living a godly life. In an age of corruption John the Baptist appeared as a clean, bracing breath of mountain air. In his passionate embrace of goodness he spoke out fearlessly against every form of corruption. When the religious leaders from Jerusalem turned up in his congregation he did not express his delight to see them and feel complimented that they had done him the honor of attending as perhaps we might have done had we been in his place. “O generation of vipers who has warned you to ...
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James Merritt
... guilt sin produces.2 Ann Landers once wrote these words: One of the most painful, self-multilating, time-and-energy-consum-ing exercises in the human experience is guilt….it can ruin your day—or your week or your life—if you let it. It turns up like a bad penny when you do something dishonest, hurtful, tacky, selfish, or rotten….never mind that it was the result of ignorance, stupidity, laziness, thoughtlessness, weak flesh or clay feet. You did wrong and the guilt is killing you. Too bad, but be ...
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Charley Reeb
... God was using him to save a life. Patience is resisting the immediate to receive God’s best. Imagine your life lived in complete trust in God, knowing his ways are better than your ways. Imagine the confidence you will have in difficult times knowing God’s best will eventually turn up. Imagine the courage you will have living every day knowing God has your back. Just be patient. His best for your life is coming. Amen.
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Dean Feldmeyer
... being good guests. It didn’t take much talking as the Appalachian Service Project had already pounded it into our heads that we were guests in those hills and should be on our best behavior at all times. I made it clear that “best behavior” included not turning up our noses at the food that was offered to us and, at least, trying a taste of everything that was provided. Smile, no matter what you really think. And say thank you like you mean it. When we arrived at her house, Mrs. Davis was nearly giddy ...
20. Professor Of Paradox
Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35
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Roger G. Talbott
... let them know that they were God's treasure. Treasured so much that the Son of God would give everything -- his very life for them. Do you understand this? Do you understand that this kingdom is something you must look for? Ask for? Knock on every door for? Turn up every stone in the field for? Open every oyster for? And when you find it, it will cost you everything? And do you understand that you really don't find this kingdom so much as it finds you? Do you understand that you really can't give anything ...
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Charley Reeb
... seemed fruitless, he had grown strong; and now he was beginning to grow wise” (story by Rick Ezell). Imagine your life lived in complete trust in God, knowing His ways are better than your ways. Imagine the confidence you will have in difficult times knowing God’s best will eventually turn up. Imagine the courage you will have living every day knowing God has your back. Just be patient. God’s best for your life is coming. Amen.
22. The Darkness Before the Dawn
John 13:18-30, John 13:31-38
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J. Howard Olds
... your accent gives you away." Peter begins to curse and swear. It was a dark and stormy night. It is not always easy to be Christian. It connects you with people you may not admire and would rather not be around. It is not always easy to be Christian. It turns up the lights in places where you prefer the dark. It is not always easy to be Christian. Sometimes it singles you out in just the moment when you long just to fit in and not be seen. Will Willimon tells the story about a sophomore who comes home from ...
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King Duncan
... hotter. Much to their surprise they discovered there was a reason for that. That whole building had been supplied with thermostats in good working order. But the covers were put on upside down. So when they tried to cool the building, they were actually turning up the heat. Somehow our moral thermostats seem to be upside down. Thus the big issue of our day is character. Humorist Robert Orben put it this way recently, "Let him who is without sin contact the Democratic National committee." How did we get into ...
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Bill Bouknight
... , he took a walk on the roof. He happened to see a beautiful woman named Bathsheba taking a bath. Ethics were trampled by lust. The fact that both he and she were married to other people made no difference. A king takes whatever he wishes. Soon she turned up pregnant. Her husband Uriah was on active duty with the army. David ordered that he be sent home on furlough, hoping that he would spend at least one night with his wife. Then when the child was born, everyone would assume that Uriah was the father. (I ...
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J. Howard Olds
... yet." He finally opened the door and I was out. I was relieved and thankful. Then he took a paint brush and began dabbing colors all over me and making swirls on the outside. When he had finished, he shoved me back in that oven again, only this time he turned up the heat twice as hot as before. I began to scream again “LET ME OUT OF HERE, LET ME OUT OF HERE!" He, with a tear in his eye, said “Not yet." When he finished he held me in his hands and gave me a mirror and said, “Now take ...
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