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Matthew 14:13-21

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King Duncan

... 5,000 men and perhaps a greater number of women and children with only five loaves of bread and two fish. The disciples surely said to themselves, it can't be done! Impossible! It's like something Charles F. Kettering once said when he was Research Head of General Motors. When he wanted a problem solved, Kettering would call together his staff. However, he would first place a table outside the room where they would be meeting with a sign that read like this: "Leave [your] slide rules here." If he didn't do ...

2. The Season Of Renewal

Mark 1:1-8

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... on us, as if it cost us everything. (Ask people to write their response to, or their questions about, that statement.) Meditation "People are very open-minded about new things -- so long as they're exactly like the old ones" (Charles F. Kettering). True for you? MUSIC POSSIBILITIES (In Addition To Those Already Suggested) Music for Preparation and Dismissal Medley of Epiphany hymns. Study the Epiphany section of your hymnbook. Some Epiphany hymns are also Christmas carols. Continue using these hymns and ...

3. How Can We Foretell the Future?

1 Kings 2:1-12

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Edward Chinn

... How many other items we’d like to add to that collection to tell the story of the last generation! Most of us are interested in the future for more personal reasons than the remnants of our civilization. "My interest is in the future," said Charles F. Kettering of the General Motors Corporation, "because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there." That word future comes from the Latin word "futurus," the future participle of "esse" (to be). The word future signifies the time to come, the events that ...

4. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

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King Duncan

... to know God will come to Jesus. He is the full revelation of who God is and what God desires. But to truly know God, God's Spirit must live in us. No amount of studying, learning, praying, or striving will help us to know God. Charles F. Kettering once said, "There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it." The people who followed Jesus knew a lot about God, but their reaction to Jesus' words shows they didn't understand God ...

5. When The Going Gets Tough

Romans 8:18-25

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King Duncan

... , each of them theoretically reasonable, and apparently likely to be good. Yet in only two of these 3000 cases did his experiments pay off and lead to patents. He once said he would try anything to solve a technical problem, even Limburger cheese. Charles F. Kettering remarked that to develop a new diesel engine he tried one thing after another for about six years until he finally found an answer. Artists and cartoonists usually draw many initial sketches before they pursue a finished product. Van Gogh drew ...

6. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... , we may not like that tongue-in-cheek theology, but there is something there. We want instant prayer power when we are up against it. We want deliverance now - never mind that haven’t tried to make contact with God in the past year. As Charles F. Kettering once said, “If you fiddle today, you can’t expect to give a concert in Carnegie Hall tomorrow.” This is what Jesus was talking about in our scripture lesson: “Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? A sound tree cannot bear evil ...

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