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Luke 24:13-35

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King Duncan

... their way to Emmaus Jesus began teaching Cleopas and his companion what the scriptures said about the Messiah. As he interpreted to them the Word, their hearts burned within them and they began to discover who it was that walked with them. A man named Dan Wakefield made that same kind of discovery. Dan grew up going to Sunday School but left the church and was away from it for many years. Until one day he visited the Holy Lands. It was truly a life-changing experience. He thought how amazing it was that he ...

2. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

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Thomas Long

... contraries; Of perceiving the error in what previously was our conviction; Of sensing the untruth 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 long-standing relationship with a woman had just dissolved. He was out of money, and had just buried, within the span of seven months, both of his parents ...

3. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

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Mark Trotter

... to be that. You will hear more about this in a month, when the Talent Fair comes, and you will have an opportunity to volunteer your services to help us become a caring community, and to bear the burdens of others. It might look something like this. Dan Wakefield is a journalist, who stayed away from the church all of his adult life. He was sitting in a bar on Christmas Eve. Somebody suggested, "Why don't we go to the candlelight service at a church." So they went to King's Chapel, to the midnight service ...

4. Afraid Of The Water

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... words, but it takes more than a plunge into a baptistry to make us a disciple of Christ. When we are baptized, we confess our faith in God and also our faith in Christ. We take our stand as a believer. Such a stand may come about in different ways. Dan Wakefield grew up in the church but left it as an adult. He had been away from the church for over twenty years when he began to feel the tug on his heart. It was no sudden thing. It was a series of events. It seemed to come naturally. Interestingly it ...

5. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... a boy, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." I prayed those words continually as an incantation against the hell raging in me." God rescued Dan Wakefield. He found his way back to sanity, health, and a renewed relationship with God that brought him joy and an exciting new life (Donald Shelby, "Rescue", August 12, 1990.) It was all grace. How it happen isn't important. That it happens is the most important ...

6. The Grace Question: “Are You a Teacher…and Yet Do Not Understand These Things?”

John 3:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... as a boy, “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.” I prayed those words continually as an incantation against the hell raging in me.” God rescued Dan Wakefield. He found his way back to sanity, health, and a renewed relationship with God that brought him joy and an exciting new life. [1] It was all grace. How it happens isn’t important. That it happens is the most important thing in the world. To know ...

7. The Spiritually Incorrect Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... that half the time we can't quite figure out what we're trying to say. (For instance, Smith College once defined the politically incorrect attitude of "ableism" as oppression of the differently abled, by the temporarily able (as referenced by Dan Wakefield, Spiritually Incorrect, [Woodstock: Vermont, Skylight Paths Publishing, 2004], 3). In the first century correctness was upheld by the sword and the self-righteous. The Romans enforced the ways of correctness for they held all the power. The muscle of the ...

8. Rainbow In The Sky

Genesis 9:1-17

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E. Carver McGriff

... belief in God. To many people, that's for sissies. Yes! But stay tuned. Ask someone who has overcome alcohol or drug addiction. Ask someone who has recovered from serious illness. Listen to people like singer Johnny Cash, or celebrated and once cynical author Dan Wakefield, or NBA star Reggie Miller of the Pacers, just to name a few at random, who have publicly told of the light breaking through their darkness because of God's actions. I once saw a cartoon showing two fish nose to nose. As the bubbles ...

9. Returning

Isaiah 40:1-11

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Will Willimon

... a place of wild beasts, temptation, sin, and bewildered wandering with no star to guide. It took Israel forty years of wandering in the wilderness finally to find their way home. I know a man that took forty years in the wilderness to find home. Dan Wakefield, in his popular book, Returning, describes how he wandered away from God, how his life as an adult became chaotic, confused. Then --"I cannot pinpoint any particular time when I suddenly believed in God again. I only know that such belief came to seem ...

10. Who Owns the Cloud: Google or God?

Luke 21:25-36

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King Duncan

... are not into computers. You’re not alone. According to author Tom Friedman, a 2012 national survey by Wakefield Research . . . found that “most respondents believe the cloud is related to weather . . . For example, 51 percent of ... 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 youth ...

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