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2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... . Lester started walking out, too. The boss asked him where did he think he was going. "Home." said Lester, "I can't work in the dark." (1) If some people used as much creativity in their work as they do trying to get out of work, the quality of work and ... The girl has runaway because she is expecting a child. She hasn't told anyone. She's afraid her family will hate her and disown her. Alvin begins to tell her about his kids. He says: "When the kids were little, I used to play a game with them. I'd give ...

2. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

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Maurice A. Fetty

... unimportant. It is only to say it is less important, because it belongs to fewer and fewer people. The future belongs to everybody. Alvin Toffler maintains we need more than ever a creative group to imagine a whole array of possible and preferable futures. Rather than ridiculing ... material things, shackled by a selfish heart, we resist the overtures of the Heavenly King and cling to our Dark Age feudal mentality. Unable to become immersed in the larger challenges and benefits of God, we become states' rights ...

3. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

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Robert Noblett

... the rudder and an eye on the compass, set off in hope and in enthusiasm! Leadership is not without its reward, either. Wrote Alvin Lindgren a few years back: The church makes its greatest impact on the persons who participate in its life and leadership. As ... through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened, through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment - the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth - until, around me, was an infinity into which ...

4. Whatever Happened To Sanctification?

Exodus 20:1-21

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... but also to be responsible. The Christian faith is not only a way of believing, but a way of living. Years ago, I heard Dr. Alvin Rogness, long-time mentor and teacher in the church, say these words, "There are no conditions to God’s grace. God’s grace is ... Carver Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. 3. Gene Davenport, Into the Darkness, (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1988), p. 72. 4. Claude Lewis, " ‘National Security’ hides nation’s sins," The Des Moines Register, Summer ...

5. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

... an absolutely overwhelming amount of information. Furthermore, the information, the amount of knowledge, doubles every ten to fourteen years! (cf. Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, p. 30 ff.) Who on earth is going to sort all that out? How are they ... candle in the sunlight of your blazing radiance. Therefore, we come to you, Lord God, Eternal Mind of the universe, confessing the darkness of our minds, the limitations of our wisdom, the confusions of our ignorance. We acknowledge our readiness to become puffed up ...

6. WHAT IS MAN?

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Larry Powell

... awakened by a disturbance at the back of the house. With cat-like dexterity, I crept to the back door, skillfully maneuvering through the darkness like a skier who had memorized the course, bumping into a chair arm, hooking my toe beneath the rug, and stumbling over a pair ... . Sometimes my explanations call for further explanations. I have been reading a great deal from a book written by Alvin Toffler, the author of Future Shock, entitled The Third Wave. In one section, Toffler discusses some of the larger ...

7. Leading as Loving

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Robert Noblett

... the “authoritarian” leader, the “laissez-faire” leader and the “democratic” leader. Alvin Lindgren, in summarizing Lewin’s findings, wrote: “Authoritarian” leadership evoked either ... set out ...” (2 Samuel 5:6 TEV) Too, leadership is a partnership in which both the leader and the led roll up their sleeves and get to work. One dark evening I was having trouble finding an address and so pulled into an abandoned gas station, pulled a map out of the glove compartment, and tried to find it. ...

8. That's Our God For You!

Luke 19:28-44

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John M. Braaten

... King, who rules in love, comes to lay his claim on your life. Your entire life, is subject to his Lordship, not just a portion of it. Dr. Alvin N. Rogness, president emeritus of Luther-Northwestern Seminary explained it this way, "This means that we have to do more than shout a few hosannas or sing a few ... the cross and we recall the whole story of pain, suffering, darkness and death. And as we gaze upon our King, arms spread wide in forgiving love, we proclaim, "That's our God for you! Yes, that's what our God ...

9. The King Who Came To Die

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John M. Braaten

... , and we do, too. Like Pilate we tend to think of kingdoms in terms of occupying land and controlling people. Dr. Alvin Rogness, president emeritus of Luther-Northwestern Seminary suggests in his book, Who Shall Be God, that if such were the nature ... over his head; he had given up his supernatural powers and then was forced to face the unbridled fury of the Prince of Darkness and all the mighty powers of this world. Satan, still stinging from his defeat at Jesus' hands in the wilderness, must certainly have ...

10. A Fragrant Offering

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

A teacher sent home a report card with this notation to the parents, "Alvin excels in initiative, group integration, responsiveness, and activity participation. Now if he would only learn to read and ... waste, and the destruction, there is one character who stands like a rock of towering strength, and whose presence moves like a steady light in the lowering darkness. It is Dilsey, the faithful servant who has watched and wept as she worked, prayed and agonized in silence as she tried to help, through more than ...

11. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

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Phil Thrailkill

... boys could see the light being carried down the stairs and then onto the front porch. As the light approached them through the darkness, the boys prepared for a fight. Instead, Mr. Royer told the boys they could have all the melons they desired, but that the ... his people be truth tellers. Character is shaped as we learn to make and keep promises. I like what the Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga says: “Our culture tells us we can be real selves only if we claim our right to self-satisfaction and self- ...

12. A “No Surprises” Easter

John 20:1-18

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David E. Leininger

... we would expect as we listen to the gospel lesson for the day would be ... Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. With great fear and trembling she looked inside and there saw ... God is still in charge. In the early 1970s, a certain theological seminary held a conference on the future. Alvin Toffler's book, Future Shock, was all the rage, and an impressive group of scholars was assembled to "do ...

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