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Acts 1:1-11

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Bill Mosley

Do you remember everything your mother told you? Here's a list which sounded familiar when I first heard it. It's called Things My MOTHER Taught Me My Mother taught me LOGIC ... "If you fall off that swing and break your neck, you can't go to the store with me." My Mother taught me MEDICINE ... "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they're going to freeze that way." My Mother taught me TO THINK A...

2. Blinders

Acts 17:22-31

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Bill Mosley

Loggerhead turtles lay eggs among the sand dunes on beaches. The little turtles dig their way up through the sand and struggle along the beach seeking the ocean waters that wash upon the sand wave after wave. It's a hunger that is born deep within them to seek this sea water, for it is life -- even living water. If they don't find it, they die. But if they find the water, they can live over 100 ye...

3. Chimps, Mount Saint Helens, and the Holy Gust

Acts 2:42-47

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Bill Mosley

They didn't get a TV Guide so they planned their television viewing by the commercial previews. Sometimes the networks don't tell you everything in the previews, like, this particularly good adventure is a two-part mini-series, and you need to watch tomorrow night, too. And the most dreaded words in the English language flash across the screen: To be continued. You didn't know? You watched ...

4. Commencement Address

Acts 1:6-14

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Bill Mosley

Sam "Golden Rule" Jones had "quittin' meetings" for those converted at his revivals. These meetings were to get people to confess their sins (cussing, drinking, gambling, and so on) and then have everyone pledge to quit their sinning. At one of these meetings, a lady was asked what she was going to quit. She said she had not been doing anything and was going to quit doing that. Perhaps it's...

5. Dark Ugly Clouds

Isaiah 50:4-9a

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Bill Mosley

Things are hardly ever the way they appear and certainly not on Calvary’s hill. The Passion story from Luke makes the turning tables graphically clear. The king is crucified. The court of law is not legal. Justice is not done. Even the Roman governor can find no crime in this man. The evidence is compromised. Everything points the other way. So why does Jesus have to die? It’s a case of “inside e...

6. Death: A Way of Life

Isaiah 52:13—53:12

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Bill Mosley

In 1933 Bishop Fulton J. Sheen published a little book on the seven words of Jesus from the cross. Sheen begins his Good Friday sermon with a story about Adam. When Adam had been driven from the Garden of Paradise, and the penalty of labor imposed upon him, he went out in quest of the bread he was to earn by the sweat of his brow. In the course of that search, he stumbled upon the limp form of hi...

7. Family Tree

Genesis 3:1-7

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Bill Mosley

The fence between Heaven and Hell was falling apart. It was badly in need of repair. Saint Peter consulted his records and saw that by the terms of an ancient agreement, it was Satan's turn to fix the fence. So he gritted his teeth and sought an audience with the Prince of Darkness. He found him in the nether regions, cleaning his pitchfork. Peter did not sit down. The smell of brimstone was heav...

8. Fire in the Hold

Acts 2:14a, 22-32

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Bill Mosley

The great luxury liner was on fire, but no one knew it. Deep in the hold, near the engine room, hundreds of tons of coal were stored. Coal-powered ships used to carry the coal in a watered-down state. But this ship was new, and very big; bigger than any ship ever built, or had ever sailed. So even though the coal was watered for safety, the enormous amount meant that there were dry spots. A ...

9. Honest Abe

Genesis 12:1-4a

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Bill Mosley

There's an oft-told story about someone going to church to hear the new young preacher give his first sermon, and someone asks him, "How was the sermon?" And the person said, "Well, it was about faith and sin, but I don't know which he was for and which he was against." This is a sermon about faith, and I want it clear right up front that I'm for it, if it's honest faith. There are two definitio...

10. Letting Go

Acts 7:55-60

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Bill Mosley

Michael Crichton was a doctor. But he also had other talents and the itch to write. So he determined to let go of his ambition of a life of medicine and pursue a career as a writer. He says in his 1988 autobiography, Travels, he relates that he was following his passion. That's admirable. There are enough people trapped in jobs and occupations they don't like. Find what you like, what you want to ...

11. Loch Ness, Locusts, and Bread

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

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Bill Mosley

An atheist was spending a quiet day fishing on Loch Ness when suddenly his boat was attacked by the legendary Loch Ness monster. In one easy flip, the beast tossed him and his boat high into the air. Then it opened its mouth to swallow both. As the man sailed head over heels, he cried out, "Oh, my God! Help me!" At once, the ferocious attack scene froze in time, and as the atheist hung in mid-ai...

12. My Laughin’ Place

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

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Bill Mosley

13. Oskar’s Cruelty

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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Bill Mosley

Schindler's List is a true story of World War II. It focuses on the heroism and self-sacrifice of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic from Krakow, Poland. Schindler goes from wanton war profiteer to a conspirator who tries to free condemned prisoners from concentration camps. In one sequence, we see Jews being herded like cattle onto freight trains, hungry, hot, and thirsty. The train is taking them to t...

14. Pass the Pigweed

Exodus 17:1-7

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Bill Mosley

They tell a story about a hurricane blowing through Galveston, LaMarque, and Texas City heading straight toward Houston. A man's farm, his home and all he'd worked for, all he'd ever owned was directly in the storm's path. He didn't want to leave, and he believed the Lord would take care of him. A bus came by and a Red Cross volunteer told the man they were evacuating everyone in the path of the ...

15. The Seeing Eye

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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Bill Mosley

An airplane flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles had a 45-minute delay and everybody on board was ticked. Unexpectedly, they stopped in Sacramento on the way. The flight attendant explained there would be another delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft to stretch, they would reboard in thirty minutes. Everybody got off the plane except one gentleman who was blind. He had ...

16. Those Parentheses

Acts 10:34-43

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Bill Mosley

Your name is very important. Your name on a suitcase in an airport or bus station can eliminate an argument. Call someone a name and you can start an argument, and maybe a fight. A name written in a book at a bookstore can increase its value, if it's the autograph of the author. Sign a contract and it's your name that makes it legal. Your name is the sign of possession, of power, a part of you th...

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