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Matthew 25:31-46

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... for all that we have, and all that we are. How will we respond this coming week, month, year? Charge to the Congregation Consider this: Have a soloist, or choir, sing the popular song, "He Ain't Heavy; He's My Brother." (words by Bob Russell, music by Bobby Scott, copyright c. 1969, by Harrison Music Corp.) Planning for Your Congregation I. Other Scriptures Psalm 23 Psalm 95:1-7a Ezekiel 34:11-17, 20-24 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 II. Suggested Hymns "O Come and Sing Unto the Lord" "For the Beauty of the Earth ...

2. Disarming Evil

Colossians 2:6-23; John 8:44-45

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Richard A. Jensen

People Of The Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil is one of Dr. M. Scott Peck's most intriguing books. In his work with patients as a psychiatrist and a Christian, Dr ... child development: "When a child is grossly confronted by significant evil in its parents, it will most likely misinterpret the situation and believe that the evil resides in the self." Bobby, that is, was in the clutches of evil powers. This evil resided in his parents whom Dr. Peck discovered to be, as his book title states, "People of the ...

3. Our Exclusive God (The First Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... lists his priorities as follows: "I believe in God, Jesus Christ, salvation, family, country, and football--in that order." Concerning Bowden, Coach Brad Scott of the University of South Carolina says, "There are many coaches across the country who are Christians. Bobby Bowden is a Christian who is a coach. And therein lies the difference." In Bowden's book he talks about a national championship: "Prior to winning it all in 1993, I will admit I used to think it wasn't in God's plan for me to win a national ...

4. Chaos or Christ: Dreams Which Calm our Fears

Matthew 1:18-25

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J. Howard Olds

... a restaurant. Fair people do not do things like that. Fair people do not blame others for their problems. Scott Peck, in discussing our need to take personal responsibility for our problems, tells about interviewing an Army career sergeant in ... in this hand, how many pieces of candy would you have?" Bobby, with great confidence, replied, “I would have 14." “No", said the teacher, “nine plus seven equals 16." “But teacher," said Bobby, “you said use your imagination. I ate one piece and gave another ...

5. Liberating the Possessed

Luke 8:26-39

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Arley K. Fadness

... . We break out in joy and laughter. Like Neil who lost his wife after an illness. Neil was devastated and grieved his beloved. But one day Neil met Bobbie and the two fell in love and took a trip to the St. Martins, Dutch West Indies. Neil sent me, his pastor, a card that simply said, "Yippee, yippee, yippee! Neil and Bobbie." Amen. 1. M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), p. 182. 2. Max Lucado, Next Door Savior (Nashville: Word Publishing ...

6. Leaving Home

Genesis 12:1-8

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King Duncan

... to the revolutionary significance of this defiant gesture.(4) Many people get homesick when they are far from home. Sir Walter Scott said: “Breathes there the man with soul so dead / who never to himself hath said, / ‘This is my own, My native ... in the way they live their lives. That’s absurd. At a meeting of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes years ago, Bobby Richardson, former New York Yankee second baseman, offered a prayer that says it all: “Dear God, Your will, nothing more, nothing less ...

7. Overcoming Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

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Lee Griess

... that we may not even experience temptation. For temptation is the devil's way of leading us away from life. M. Scott Peck, the author of the book The Road Less Traveled, once observed that the word "evil" is "live" spelled backwards. ... life. It is temptation, the little "foxes that eat the vines" (as Solomon noted thousands of years ago) that give us the trouble. Bobby Leach, an Englishman, startled the world early in the 1920s by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, escaping serious harm. However, few ...

8. Passage To New Life

John 20:1-9

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King Duncan

Thirty years ago, in 1964, State Senator Bobby Rowan of Georgia rose to his feet to make a motion before the state assembly. "Mr. President," Senator Rowan ... where we should start this morning: EASTER CONFRONTS US WITH THE REALITY OF DEATH. That's not a very happy thought, is it? We don't like to think about dying. Yet, as Scott Peck says in his book, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, the willingness to confront our own mortality is a sign of emotional and spiritual maturity. It is death that makes us ...

9. The Lord's Prayer: Hallowed be Thy Name

Matthew 6:5-15

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Eric Ritz

... always taught us that we needed to keep this healthy balance in our understanding of and relationship with almighty God. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "The test of intelligence is the ability to hold two contrasting ideas in the mind at the same ... was as if they had walked onto holy ground. Many of them felt that they were having a holy experience, for this was where Bobby Jones and the greatest golfers of all times had been. People did not throw their cigarettes down and grind them into the ground; they ...

10. You Are Invited

Matthew 11:25-30

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J. Howard Olds

... , relationship with Jesus Christ. You who are weary, come. Long before the haunting, horrible, defining day of September 11th, Scott Peck opened his popular book, The Road Less Traveled, with these words: “Life is difficult." Indeed it is. Whether ... . Of the remaining 10%, half of it you can't do anything about. So on a lighter day I might have said to you, along with Bobby McFerrin, “Don't worry, be happy." But I would be talking to the wind to say that today. We are worried, and no amount of positive ...

11. Our Fair Share

Matthew 20:1-16

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Scott Hoezee

Barbara Brown Taylor says that this parable is a little like the cod liver oil that mothers used to give their kids to cure what ailed them: you know it's good for you, you trust the one who is giving it to you, but that doesn't make it very easy to swallow even so! Most of us are born into this world with a huge sense of infantile entitlement followed by, at a very early age already, a seemingly intuitive sense of fairness and unfairness. It's like Charlie Brown's little sister, Sally, in the classic " ...

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