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1. The Gospel Is Unchained

2 Timothy 2:8-13

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Donna Schaper

... cookie and a cracker and a bottle of jelly any more? I am in chains by the number of choices that I have! They keep me too busy to pray and too busy to praise and too busy to focus. How can I break my chains on behalf of the unchained gospel? By letting less meet more and fewer meet finer. According to Barry Schwartz in The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less, there are two kinds of people: the satisficers and the maximizers. A satisficer is the one who is willing to live with the good enough rather than ...

2. Unchained Melody

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Leonard Sweet

... the Lord burns brightly in the sanctuary, the saints who suffered and died can see it, the angels can see it and the demons can see it. Will you be another light in the Kingdom (Philippians 2:15), another candle in the wind? Will you add your voice to the unchained melody?

3. How Many Times Should We Forgive?

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

... Unforgiveness will keep us chained to whomever we don't forgive. When we go to bed at night, the unforgiven person is there to keep us awake. When we go on vacation, the unforgiven person travels with us to our destination. The only way to get unchained is to forgive and release the person who has offended us." (8) Writing about successful people, Elbert Hubbard put it this way, "A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. Successful people forget. They ...

4. Jesus Breaks Our Chains

John 11:1-45

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Richard Gribble

... . If anyone believes in the Lord that one will never die without the Spirit. Jesus wants Martha, Mary, and all those present, and you and I as well, to know that his presence is not so much to raise us from physical death but to restore hope to all and unchain us from all that holds us back from being the fullness of who we want to be. The words of Jesus at the end of the gospel are powerful indeed, "Unbind him and let him go." Jesus has removed the shackles and chains, the cloth of death from Lazarus. It ...

5. All Is New in Christ

John 11:4-6, Philippians 3:4-11

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Richard Gribble

... If anyone believes in the Lord that one will never die without the Spirit. Jesus wants Martha, Mary, and all those present, and by extension all of us, to know that his presence is not so much to raise us from physical death, but to restore hope to all and unchain us from all that holds us back from being the fullness of who we want to be. The words of Jesus at the end of this gospel pericope are powerful indeed: "Untie him and let him go free." Jesus has removed the shackles and chains, the cloth of death ...

6. Righteous!

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-31

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Steven E. Albertin

Perhaps some of you are old enough to remember one of the most popular musical groups of the mid 1960s, The Righteous Brothers. Remember "Unchained Melody"? I remember once hearing an interview with one of the Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley, when he described the significance of their name. Normally when we think of the word "righteous," we think of impeccable behavior and sterling moral character. But their name was not so much about their morality ...

7. Let Them Eat Cake

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Leonard Sweet

... purloined; but the practice also kept Jesus’ more radical words about the power of the poor and God’s tenderness toward bad characters out of the hands of the poor and bad characters. But Paul’s proclamation ultimately prevailed. The word of God “unchained” was to be made available to all, regardless of the cost to those who spread that word. Paul’s message to Timothy was to “endure” for “the sake of the elect.” Commentators disagree over whom Paul discerned as “the elect” in this ...

8. The Wild Within

Luke 4:1-13, Mark 1:9-13, Matthew 4:1-11

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Lori Wagner

... , projects, or new trails. But our “wild place” is also where the trappings of our manners, our conventions, our courtesies, our decorum fall away, revealing the default modes of our untapped potential, our unexplored emotions, our untamed intuition, our unchained thoughts. Here our fears are revealed, our grief exposed, our defenses crumbled, the vast, windy desert of our hearts open to the struggles, the exploration, the spelunking, the excavation of our deepest mind and heart. This is the wilderness ...

9. Easter Power

Acts 14:8-18

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Will Willimon

... on that first Easter mom. Beneath the somewhat sedate rhythms of today's service, you can still sense the throb of the Easter tempo when the stone was rolled away and the angels began to shout, when the power of God was unleashed, dead Jesus was unchained, let go, set loose, sprung up, threw off the grave clothes, and sallied forth as the Risen Christ. Easter power. That unchecked power which so startled the fearful disciples on Easter is yet with us -- at least that's what Luke, the writer of Acts, says ...

10. The Gift of Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... way, “Unforgiveness will keep us chained to whomever we don’t forgive. When we go to bed at night, the unforgiven person is there to keep us awake. When we go on vacation, the unforgiven person travels with us to our destination. The only way to get unchained is to forgive and release the person who has offended us.” (4) But there is a third reason for us to practice forgiveness that is even more compelling. It is part of our commitment to Christ to forgive. Jesus taught us to pray, “Forgive us our ...

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