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Mark 9:33-37

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King Duncan

... small window he cried, "I see Daddy; I see Daddy; Daddy." Suddenly he was waving both chubby arms eagerly, almost frantically. He could see Daddy and everything else faded into the background. (2) Children have a way of seeing God that we lose as we grow older. Dick Gregory, a very controversial figure, a black comedian and activist, once told about taking his oldest son to Mexico to a place where there is no electricity. He said they lived in a hut. He was in the hut one night when his son ran in and said ...

2. Men Like Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-26

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Donald B. Strobe

... out and his son showed him the stars. It suddenly dawned on him that having been born and raised in Chicago the boy had never seen a sky full of stars. All of the lights and all of the buildings had simply blotted out the wonder of the nighttime sky. Dick Gregory said that he laid on his back with a straw in his mouth and together they looked at the Big Dipper and the Milky Way. They even saw some shooting stars. He said, “I cried that night; not for him, he had never seen that many stars, but for me ...

3. The Lamb of God

John 1:29-34

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William B. Kincaid, III

... a willingness to sacrifice, the best we will ever do is see it from a distance. 1. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968 speech, quoted by Mark Lane and Dick Gregory, Codename "Zorro": The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977), pp. 116-117. 2. Lane and Gregory, p. 114. 3. John Cartwright, Lecture at Lexington Theological Seminary, Lexington, Kentucky, January, 1996. 4. Leslie Weatherhead, The Will of God (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1944), p. 12. 5. My ...

4. Nobody - Simon of Cyrene

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Ron Lavin

... . I speak here about the way of the cross. That is always a timely subject. My name as given in the Gospel of Mark is Simon of Cyrene (Mark 15:21). My name as given in the book of Acts is Niger (Acts 13:1). One of your modern writers, Dick Gregory, has written a book entitled Nigger in which he tells of some of the penalties paid by a man who is born with black skin. I understand what he means. One of your song writers has written a song which also carries some of my emotions. Nobody knows the trouble ...

5. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

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Maxie Dunnam

... it, come Monday the school might not function right. "Where are you going, Richard?" asked the teacher.I walked out of that school that day and for a long time I did not go back very often. There was shame there." (from the autobiography of Dick Gregory) It's a picture of the opposite of what I'm talking about today. With that picture in mind, in what bold contrast is our Hebrew scripture lesson set. Listen to it. "Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby ...

6. A One Sentence Legacy

Luke 14:25-35

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King Duncan

... First-Team All-Pro in 1971. After football, Smith was recruited to appear in commercials for Miller Lite beer. He and fellow NFL veteran Dick Butkus were cast as inept golfers and polo players in the TV spots. In one of the most memorable ads, Smith recited the virtues of ... Miller, MONDAY FODDER, http://family-safe-mail.com/ 2. (New York: Broadway Books 2008). 3. Leland Gregory, Stupid History Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, ...

7. The Flow of Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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Gregory J. Johanson

DICK FRAZIER is presently associate director of the Presbyterian Family Life Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, a multi-service pastoral counseling facility. Before that he was a local pastor and then a Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor and Chaplain Therapist at a psychiatric center working with institutionalized patients. He also preaches in the context of invitations from local churches that value his input and perspective. The Flow of Life underscores the normality of the ebb and flow of feelings ...

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