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1. How to Live the Good Life (Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness)

Galatians 5:22

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James Merritt

... Washington another day or two?" She tells him that she can, and he says, "Good. Go to your hotel and meet me here at nine o'clock in the morning on Tuesday." He's hoping by then he can do something. She's heartbroken, but she leaves. The Ford Executive goes to Ann Higgins, a Presidential Aide. Ann goes to the President's secretary and tells the story. She goes to President Reagan. He says, "Bring her into the Oval Office when she comes." Well Tuesday arrives, and it was a particularly heavy news day. This ...

2. Be Careful How You Live

Ephesians 5:15-20

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Brett Blair

... bill was so high. Steinmetz's replied: For tinkering with the generators, $10. For knowing where to tinker, $9,990. Ford paid the bill. Steinmetz had what the repairmen lacked—an understanding of how the machines were put together. They ... you six feet under ground. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous once sent columnist Ann Landers a letter revealing how he expected one thing from alcohol and got another. He wrote, Dear Ann Landers: We drank for joy and became miserable. We drank for sophistication and became ...

3. How Was Jesus' Death Different?

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

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... us from death. That is why Jesus' cross is different. No one and nothing else can save a person from sin and from himself. Ann Landers received a letter from a wife who supported the nagging of husbands. She said she needed to nag her husband because he was ... question is whether modern man wants to be forgiven, wants to be accepted by God as his child. President Ford offered an estimated 100,000 draft dodgers and deserters clemency, amnesty, and forgiveness. The response was most disappointing. He extended ...

4. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams

Luke 1:67-80

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Carroll Gunkel

... in a baby carriage. Mrs. Maguire held the hand of her other son, John, aged two and one half. Mrs. Pat O’Connor and her children accompanied her sister, Anne Maguire. The city noises were broken by the sound of gunfire, a disturbing but not unexpected experience in strife-ridden Belfast. Within moments after the women heard the gunshots, a blue Ford sedan sped around the street corner, chased by two British Army Jeeps. The driver of the car lost control and swerved onto the sidewalk where Mrs. Maguire and ...

5. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

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Warren Thomas Smith

... of human behavior. The effects of his work continue to shape how people think of themselves and others. Henry Ford taught the world how to design and manufacture modern appliances - in mass - and how to advertise, distribute, and sell ... and Perpetua; Athanasius and Ambrose; Benedict and Thomas Aquinas; Theresa of Avila and Katherine Zell; Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin; Ann Hutchinson and Madam Guyon. Harry Hosier’s Story One of the remarkable personalities in American church history is Harry Hosier, ...

6. God Bless America

Psalm 33:1-22

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David E. Leininger

... that were born in his mind. He became an inventor because he lived in a land where even a poor boy could have a chance. Henry Ford was a simple mechanic, but he became the world's greatest industrialist because America gave him his chance. Abraham Lincoln - from log cabin to studies by ... renewed 1965, 1966. Copyright assigned to Winthrop Rutherfurd, Jr., Anne Phipps Sidamon-Eristoff, and Theodore R. Jackson as Trustees of the God Bless America Fund. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

7. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... heap of papers that I feared my homework would be lost there forever. About six weeks later, one Sunday morning about eight o'clock, [my wife] Anne and I were awakened by someone banging on our front door. It was Neyman. He rushed in with papers in hand, all excited: "I've ... of operations research until the 1990s. In 1975, Dr. Dantzig was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Gerald Ford . George Dantzig passed away at his Stanford home at age 90 on 13 May 2005. THE INFORMATION IN QUOTES IS ...

8. Grace in the Midst of Hopelessness

Romans 8:18-27

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Glenn McDonald

... the Spirit within us is interpreting everything perfectly. Help is on the way. God knows our address and God knows who we are. Ann Lamott, who has written with searing honesty about her battle to survive alcoholism, reveals that she has two favorite prayers. Both are six ... as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he helped bring to light the sometimes-deadly consequences of riding in a Ford Pinto. From time to time this compact car would burst into flames when struck from behind. One of the landmark ...

9. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

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James Merritt

... is not conducive to dignity and self-esteem. Society encourages sin, but it will not tolerate the 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 ... 1 says again, “whose sin is covered.” (v.1b) Not only was David’s sin cancelled, David’s sin was covered. When President Ford pardoned President Nixon, his sin was forgiven, but it was not forgotten. Nixon was cleared but his sin was not covered. But when ...

10. Power and Compassion

Hebrews 5:1-10

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Lee Ann Dunlap

Many of you may remember from your grade school days a novel by Mark Twain titled, The Prince and the Pauper. It has been adapted in various forms of Disney productions and even a few cartoon tales. The Twain story begins with two boys with identical features — one a spoiled royal heir, and the other a street urchin surviving on his wits. By chance they meet. The pauper is enamored with the fineries of the palace, while the prince envies the pauper's freedom to come and go as he chooses. Eventually, they ...

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