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1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Carroll Gunkel

The name of Helen Keller is a familiar name; her story is a familiar story. Helen’s family was living in Tuscumbia, Alabama, when she was born on June 27, 1880. She was born to a distinguished family Swiss ancestry on her father’s side, and cousin to the revered General Robert E. Lee on her mother’s side. The family’s ancestry was enhanced by the birth of a beautiful daughter. At the age of ei...

2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

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Carroll Gunkel

What are you to do if you are a Christian in a non-Christian society? More than that, what are you to do if you are a Christian in an anti-Christian society? What are you to do if you have been reared in a theological atmosphere steeped in Romans 13 with its emphasis on obedience to those in authority? What are you to do if you have been taught that your political leaders hold their mandate from ...

3. Doctor Thomas Dooley

Matthew 9:1-8

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Carroll Gunkel

From time to time people will ask, "How long does it take to write a sermon?" Generally, I cannot attach a specific time to the preparation of a particular sermon. Every sermon is a composite of everything a preacher has read and studied on a subject. In the case of this particular sermon, however, I can give at least a general response to that question: This sermon was begun more than twenty y...

4. Father Damien

Luke 17:11-19

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Carroll Gunkel

Leprosy is no longer the scourge of humanity it once was. This is mainly a tribute to the drug penicillin, which has practically eliminated leprosy from this earth. Before that miracle, however, men and women stricken with the disease were subjected not only to the reality of great suffering, slowly leading to death, but also to the tragedy of exile from their communities and separation from thos...

5. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

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Carroll Gunkel

What do we think of when we see members of the Salvation Army? We might think of individuals quaintly garbed in uniforms which are seemingly anachronistic for our day and time. Or, we might think of Christmas when Salvationists appear on street corners and in shopping centers with bells, buckets, and tambourines. Or, we might remember the concern shown by members of the Salvation Army in wartime...

6. Hiltgunt Margaret Zassenhaus

Deuteronomy 31:1-8

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Carroll Gunkel

One of the members of our congregation recently underwent eye surgery. When I visited her, she commented favorably on the gentleness, the compassion, and the concern of the surgeon who had performed the operation. She commented further on the number of people he helped and yet, at the same time, was never too busy to carefully explain what he would do in the course of surgery. Furthermore, the p...

7. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams

Luke 1:67-80

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Carroll Gunkel

I suggested that the sermon I preached on the life and ministry of Dr. Tom Dooley was begun more than twenty years before it was actually preached and had no real starting point. This message has a more recent and specific beginning. This sermon was begun on Tuesday, August 10, 1976, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On that day and in that place Anne Maguire went for a walk. With her was her daught...

8. One Final Meeting

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Carroll Gunkel

Henry Senkiewicz, in his novel of the early days of Christianity, QUO VADIS, relates a poignant meeting. Simon Peter, having faced persecution, and believing he can endure no more, decides to leave Rome and, in so doing, save his life. While on the Appian Way, Peter has a vision wherein he meets the Lord Jesus walking toward him and Rome. Falling on his knees, humbly before the Lord, Simon Peter a...

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