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Luke 6:17-26

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Mark Trotter

... Woe to you who laugh now." So I explained all this to Dan, the two versions of the Beatitudes, one in Matthew and one in Luke, and that they are very different. Matthew is really quite lovely, and Luke is quite hard. Dan said, "Well I've got an idea. I will write an ... as a spiritual discipline. That is the model of the monastic movement. There is a certain attractiveness to that. George Bernard Shaw carried on a long correspondence with a cloistered nun. She had no contact with the outside world. He wrote to ...

2. Mourning for the One They Pierced

Zechariah 12:10-14

Understanding Series

Pamela J. Scalise

... confess their sinfulness (e.g., Pss. 130:2; 143:1; Jer. 3:21; 31:9; Dan. 9:3, 17, 18, 23), and that of their ancestors (Dan. 9:4–6). Fasting, sackcloth, and ashes accompany Daniel’s supplications (Dan. 9:3). The mourning will be as intense as anyone can imagine. They will ... over Jesus’ passion and remorse for the human sin that sent him to the cross. The familiar hymn by Bernard of Clairvaux articulates this piety, “Mine, mine was the transgression / But thine, the deadly pain.” Additional Notes 12 ...

3. Who Owns the Cloud: Google or God?

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... he kept his twenty prized St. Bernards, Barrymore flung open the gate and released the dogs. In great distress he shouted at them, “Fend for yourselves!” (1) I’m glad he was concerned about his St. Bernards, but I’m sure he felt quite ... live now in the light of Christ’s final victory, even though that victory is yet to be won. Let me give you an example. Dan Bauman in his book, Dare to Believe, illustrates how we are to experience tomorrow’s joy today. He explains that at Christmas time as a ...

4. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

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Thomas Long

... in what was our truth....2 In his article "Returning to Church," which appeared in the New York Times Magazine, novelist Dan Wakefield movingly described his own repentance, a turn from despair to faith. Wakefield portrayed a treacherous time in his life. A ... City (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), p. 57. 2. Carl Jung, as quoted in Bernard Martin, If God Does Not Die (Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1966), p 9. 3. Dan Wakefield, "Returning to Church," The New York Times Magazine (December 22, 1985), p. 26 ...

5. The Poor Man in the Mercedes

Luke 16:19-31

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King Duncan

... Gospel message—what we sow, we reap. Perhaps more than ever in human history, we need a missions-consciousness both at home and abroad. As George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “The worst sin to our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of ... gives it to those who walk in his footsteps. 1. Contributed by Dan Schnell, Readers’ Digest, April 1998, p. 185. 2. J. Daniel Baumann, An Introduction To Contemporary Preaching (Baker Book House; New ed. Edition, 1988), pp. 172 ...

6. Can You Deny Yourself?

Mark 8:27-38

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King Duncan

... quickly spread to news organizations around the world. One thing that caught my eye about this story is that for Bernard Tapie, a prominent French businessman, this is the third time that a major news organization has mistakenly published his obituary ... No other lifestyle can permanently change the world in which we live. 1. “The Man Who Was Dying to Be an Actor” by Dan Lewis, Now I Know!, December 7, 2020. 2. “French Radio Accidentally Announces Death Of 100 Of World’s Most Famous People” by Alex ...

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