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2 Samuel 12:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... the lives of the rich and famous. With so much dirty laundry flapping in the public eye, it is hard to imagine that the threat of making public David's sins and downfall before the Lord was considered part of the terrible punishment meted out to the king (see verse 11). Indeed it now appears that Thomas ... people in the public eye today really qualify as confessions? Or are they, as Newsday writer David Friedman has suggested, examples of a once noble discipline now "deep fried for a junk food culture"?

2. A Non-anxious Presence

Mark 4:35-41

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Dean Feldmeyer

... peoples’ anxiety. Unfortunately people often see this lack of anxiety on the part of the leader as a lack of caring. This week’s scripture lessons give us a perfect test of Friedman’s theories. In the Old Testament lesson the Hebrew army of Saul was afraid of Goliath and their fear paralyzed them. David entered as the non-anxious presence in the midst of their cowering, paralyzing anxiety. In Mark’s gospel lesson, the boat and those within it constitute an understandably anxious system. Jesus is ...

3. Building a Winning Team

Matthew 16:13-20

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King Duncan

... team. 1. “The 10 Most Horrifying Team Building Exercises,” Jul 6, 2012, https://www.quickbase.com/blog/the-10-most-horrifying-team-building-exercises. 2. https://www.bibleplaces.com/banias/. 3. David Guzik, Enduring Word Commentary, https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/matthew-16/. 4. “Blame Me” by Matt Friedman, Jackson, Mississippi, in The Clarion-Ledger (8/09/00). Cited in Leadership, Winter 2002, p. 73. 5. “A 5-year-old boy's entire kindergarten class showed up for his adoption hearing ...

4. Do You Have It?

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Leonard Sweet

... international news feeds, text messages from anywhere to anywhere, have managed to create a real (if uncomfortable) "global village." Thomas Friedman is right: the world is flat. Everybody knows everybody else's business. And we seem to think that we ... "It"? Do you have "It"? Would you like "It"? Animations, Illustrations, Illuminations, Ruminations, Applications Although Nassau Presbyterian Church pastor David A. Davis (Princeton, NJ) didn't have "It" in mind when he wrote this (in A Kingdom We Can Taste ...

5. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

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Carl Jech

... public." (By the way, one of the better recent books that explains contemporary biblical scholarship for the general public is Richard E. Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible?, Summit Books.) Nor should it bother us to recognize that there is a lot of symbolism ... to-earth personal nature of the Gospel of Jesus, we will take the time to read a book like Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates, in which we can learn how different personality types interact with one another. We might begin learning to ...

6. Best Advice

Matthew 7:24-29

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Brett Blair

... from those football days in his back yard? Anticipation is the key to investing and business generally. In 1982 Gen. David Patraeus, then a captain with eight years military experience was weighing various options for his life. His boss Maj. Gen. ... : "Get sales up, and keep expenses down." Peter G Peterson, Chairman of the Blackstone group, learned from his professor Milton Friedman, at the University of Chicago, "Focus on those thing that you do better than others." Joaana Shileds, the president of ...

7. Dedicating Temples

1 Kings 8:1- 6, 10-11, 22-30, 41-43

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Donna Schaper

... , the temple is dedicated, a cloud of glory arrives, people have a mystical experience, and Solomon explicitly takes on the mantle of his father David. Then he begins to "preach" a kind of wisdom that is just amazing. While I am tempted to stay with the spectacle of the ... feel afraid. These are periods when aliens are in danger. I think of the great line by New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, that "the price of oil and the pace of freedom seem to go in opposite directions." We need safety in order to ...

8. No Other Gods

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... we will serve the Lord.” 1. The Hustle, August 3, 2023, by Jacob Cohen, Juliet Bennett Rylah, Lestraundra Alfred, and Sara Friedman. 2. “7 Random Things I Noted While Throwing Away 465 Items” by Mathias Barra, Published in Ascent Publication, Dec 14, 2020. ... s%2C%20Benjamin,throw%20it%20into%20the%20street.3. 4. No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols by Kelly Minter (David C. Cook: Colorado Springs, CO.), 2008, p. 45. 5. “Actions, not words, reveal our real values” from the book, Hell Yeah ...

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