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John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... of mind? Jesus said, "Peace be with you." But how and where do we find that peace? For many of us, peace will come only when we come to grips with our past. Many of us are haunted by guilt, resentments, past failures, and lingering hurts. David Spangler uses a wonderful analogy in his book, Everyday Miracles. He tells of living in New Orleans for several years. Situated near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi river, New Orleans was carved out of swamp land. Much of the city lies under sea level and remains ...

2. All God's Children Can Dance

Psalm 30:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... our toes start tapping, our fingers get drumming, and our whole mind/body/spirit can't help jumping up to dance. Just as David leapt and danced with joy before the Lord, we too must move when the joy of the Lord overflows every cell in our ... t create joy the same way we create happiness; instead, we discover it by making ourselves available to it, by getting in its path." (David Spangler, Blessing: The Art and the Practice [New York: Riverhead Books, 2001], 121.) Are you ready to step out into Joy's way? Joy' ...

3. Scissors, Paper, Rock

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... to "flow" and "yield," has been weakened and degraded in recent times by confusing this strength to bend with a rootless, undirected, "anything goes" ideology. God never intended us to drift about in a water world without purpose or perspective. Twentieth-century mystic David Spangler rescues the concept of going with the flow from this formless, featureless label with which we have wrongly tagged it. Back in the Sixties, it became a catch phrase to say 'Let's go with the flow,'.... And the image that was ...

4. Yes! (Easter Sunday)

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... over despair. Everything about Easter says, “Yes, Yes, Yes.” Recently I read a hilarious story about a six-year-old boy named David who was taking a walk one day with his grandmother. They decided to detour through the local graveyard. Stopping to read the ... .” Christian Parenting Today, Sept/Oct 1999, Vol. 12, No. 2, Page 21. 2. Don’t Stop Laughing Now! Compiled by Ann Spangler and Shari MacDonald (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), p. 54. 3. Mack R. Douglas, How to Make a Habit of Succeeding (New York ...

5. Easter: Seeing Is Believing

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the day the person died. "Why do some tombstones only have one date?" little David asked. "Because those people haven't died yet," his grandmother explained. David was obviously stunned by his grandmother's explanation because, that night, he couldn't ... Christ is alive and the tomb empty because others see Him living in you. 1. Don't Stop Laughing Now! Compiled by Ann Spangler and Shari MacDonald (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), p. 54. 2. www.ministryandmedia.com 3. Mack R. Douglas, How to Make a Habit of ...

6. The Incomparable Christ

Matthew 16:13-20

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Stephen M. Crotts

... in Beth-lehem, be called a Nazarene, and yet God would call him out of Egypt. He'd come from the tribe of Judah, the house of David. His would be a ministry of miracles, yet he'd be rejected by his own people, be a suffering servant, and die like a sacrificial lamb, yet ... the Bible, the church, Christian universities, families - human authority and beyond - all chorusing, "Jesus is truth!" Oswald Spangler called Jesus "an incomparable figure." Ibsen said he is "the greatest rebel who ever lived." Will Durant ...

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