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Matthew 15:21-28

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King Duncan

... every profession. Even in the entertainment business. There are so many talented performers. You see them everywhere. But only a few make it to the top. Sometimes the difference comes down to simple determination. Stephen Arterburn tells about country singer Clint Black. Black has sold more than 16 million albums, but nothing was handed to him. He began his working life as a newspaper solicitor, selling subscriptions to the Houston Post from door to door. The job wasn’t easy, and the prospective customers ...

2. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... them." Matthew 4:17b It was an awful time in London. In December of 1952 a toxic mix of dense fog and thick black smoke killed four thousand in four days. Coffins ran out, as did funeral flowers. It was one of the deadliest environmental disasters in ... 22. What does it mean to change because the rule of God has come near? In these stories we have the beginning of an answer. Clint Eastwood is an American film icon. Who can forget Dirty Harry and the huge 45 caliber magnum weapon he carried, more a canon than a ...

3. The King Who Died

Luke 23:26-43

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King Duncan

... ? Because God loves us. Dr. Gary Nicolosi compares God’s love to the 1993 hit film, In the Line of Fire. Clint Eastwood plays Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan. Horrigan had protected the life of the President for more than three decades, but ... ; then, with a mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible. Unfortunately their dog is a highly-trained Black Lab used for retrieving-- especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it, the dog takes off across the ice at a high ...

4. Ash Wednesday

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Joel 2:12-17, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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George Bass

... the most of them in the renewal of our baptism. The announcement of Ash Wednesday has painted every day with the blackness of death and the tomb - "Remember, you are dust, and unto dust you will return" - but the "Christ is risen" of Easter ... 3:19 - "Nightmare." Life would be something of a nightmare, if our thoughts continually turned to death and nothingness. In an old Clint Eastwood movie, The Ballad Of Josie Wales, Eastwood's young companion is shot as they escape an ambush, and he blurts out, sweat ...

5. Jesus Is Rejected

Luke 4:14-30

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James Garrett

... whose lives they would most like to emulate. Lt. Col. Oliver North was placed first, President Reagan second, and actor Clint Eastwood third. Jesus Christ tied for fourth place with Chrysler chairman Lee lacocca. This Scripture directs us to deal honestly ... World War I my parents decided that, to help conserve wool, I would wear one of my father’s cast-off suits, almost black, floppy, cuffless, the exact opposite of what youth were wearing, I cried out, ‘Everybody at school will laugh at me.’ My mother ...

6. Elephants in the Room: Depression

Lamentations 3:17-26

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Charley Reeb

... instance. He was on top of the world, literally! High atop Mount Carmel Elijah he had taken on 850 pagan priests and won. Clint Eastwood had nothing on him! He asked God to make known his supreme power over the god Baal, and God did with a ... who was monitoring the balcony, but he did not want her to see him jump. So Bill went back to his dorm. He lied on the black and white tile floor and thought about this church and his faith. He thought about the sermons that he heard from J. Wallace Hamilton. He closed ...

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