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King Duncan
... that you and I can agree on: Bitterness, rage and anger are dangerous emotions. Does the name Rudy Tomjanovich ring a bell with you? Tomjanovich was an NBA basketball player who was seriously injured and could easily have been killed by a punch ... the past. I forgave all those who wronged me and asked forgiveness from those that I have wronged.” Somehow by the grace of God Chris Simpson was able to leave his bitterness, rage and anger behind. One sign of the change that occurred in his life is that he’s ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... left there with a new life. He had been born again. As he said, “That day, joy filled my heart, and it felt as if the bells of the church chimed in harmony with the beats of my heart.” (5) And that brings us to the second insight we learn from this ... David McAllister confessed to the kidnapping and attempted murder of Christopher Carrier. McAllister had been an employee of Chris’ father. When Mr. Carrier caught McAllister drinking on the job, he fired him. The vicious attack on young Christopher was ...
3. Excited!
Acts 2:1-13
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King Duncan
... Kelly, broke loose on an eighty-nine yard scamper and a touchdown, giving his team a 22-21 lead. During Kelly's run his coach, Chris Ault of the Wolf Pack, got so caught up in the excitement that he began racing down the sideline alongside Kelly. When Ault reached the ... would fix that kind of blackout quickly. However, they didn't respond quickly on that particular occasion. While alarm bells rang unheard, the technicians were--believe it or not--attending a training session on how to handle an emergency. ( ...
4. The Oneness of Twoness
Romans 14:1--15:13
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Leonard Sweet
... been in the public school system, the kids are putting on a “holiday concert” that includes actual Christmas carols. Yes, Rudolph and Jingle Bells are highlighted the most. But mixed in the program are traditional carols that ask “What Child is This?” or that describe the ... possible for all who come to Christ to find a place in the choir. I have a South African friend named Chris Peppler who is President of South African Theological Seminary and a gifted theologian. One day he was reading Psalm 85:10 ...
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King Duncan
... wonderful true story that is perfect for Ash Wednesday. It was told to him by a colleague, Pastor Chris Mietlowski. It concerned a baptism that Mietlowski once performed on an infant named Eric. Mietlowski took Eric in ... were the good guys. One of the most notorious killers of Muslims was a man by the name of Arkan. When being interviewed by British journalist Martin Bell, Arkan pulled open his shirt to expose a large cross on his chest. “See,” he said, “I am a Christian.” (2) A large cross on your ...
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Frank Ramirez
... his friends to complete God's work, and he is expecting us to do this for each other, to serve not only our little corner of Chris­tianity, but all of Christendom, and beyond that the whole world, so we might also have a part in God's work. Living as God's ... sense. The four-part songs and cathedral organs, the guitars and drums, the rustic hymns and African chants, the Latin rhythms, the bells and the carols, the white keys and the black keys, and the tapping feet and the beating hearts all blended together ...
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Arley K. Fadness
... created being," these burly security guards flex their muscles and shout, "No way!" Because of this, on The Holy Trinity and every Sunday, Chris­tians respond to God's grace by doing two important things. We recite the creeds and we sing our lungs out! An ancient ... hikers, who go up every year. I say, "It is good, Lord." I see the sun, the ferns, the moss, and the blue bell flowers. I recall the reports from astronomers who scan the stars, the planets, the galaxies and they tell us creation is still going ...
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Chris Ewing
Years ago, during summer vacation, I took a whole pile of books out of the library and spent days and days just reading. Today I'd have trouble telling you what most of those books were, never mind what they were about. But there's one little snatch of dialogue from one of the books that has stuck with me all these years — the bit of dialogue, in fact, that gave the book, and later the movie, its name: a snippet of conversation about the color purple. Actually, it's a bit of conversation about appreciation ...
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