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Philippians 1:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... too late for you, Mike! It’s not too late for you!" It is just that that kind of love - "love full of knowledge and insight," love with no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; love that can outlast anything, Edith Bunker-type love, Christian love that Paul was praying for the church at Philippi. It is just that kind of love which thinking people must include in our thanksgiving prayers for our community. We must pray not only for growth in our love for one another but also ...

2. A House Divided

Mark 3:20-30

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King Duncan

... , "Well, walk on me; step on me; I want peace at all costsI don't care about the substance of this issue, but at least we will have peace in our home." Do you recognize anyone at this point? An obvious example of "Doormat" was Jean Stapleton's marvelously played Edith Bunker on "All in the Family." In one scene Edith is talking to her friend Amelia. The dialogue went something like this: Amelia: "Of all the people I know, you're practically the only one who has a happy marriage ...

3. What’s Going on at Your House?

Mark 3:31-35

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Charles R. Leary

... in the family. The famous comedy series, All in the Family, gave it a good workout. Jean Stapleton was fantastic in the role of Edith Bunker. In one scene Edith talks to her friend, Amelia, like this: Amelia: “Of all the people I know, you’re practically the only one who has a happy marriage.” Edith: Really? Me and Archie ... Oh, thank you!” Amelia: “What is your secret, Edith?” Edith: “Oh, I ain’t got no secret. Archie and me still have our fights. Of course, we don’t let them go on too ...

4. What Is Your Secret?

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An obvious example of "Doormat" was Jean Stapleton's marvelously played Edith Bunker on "All in the Family." In one scene Edith is talking to her friend Amelia. The dialogue went something like this: Amelia: "Of all the people I know, you're practically the only one who has a happy marriage." Edith: "Really? Me and Archie ... Oh, thank you." Amelia: "What is your secret, Edith?" Edith: "Oh, I ain't got no secret. Archie and me still have our fights. Of course, we don't let them go on too long. Somebody ...

5. What A Friend He Had In Judas

Matthew 26:47-56

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Thomas Long

... the wrong phrase, to end up inadvertently slandering the desk clerk's mother. In a small college town in the South, they still tell the story of the international student in the early 1970s who learned his idiomatic English by watching Archie and Edith Bunker on All In The Family. Not quite catching all the nuances, this student began wandering into the town shops, smiling a toothy grin, and greeting local merchants with a cheery, "Hello, dingbat!" If one does not really know another culture, it is easy ...

6. Is Your Sin My Business?

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... sin, you can ignore it by looking the other way. Or you can let the person decide to run his/her life and make his/her own decisions as to what is right and wrong. In one of the episodes in the once popular TV show, All in the Family, Edith Bunker comes home unexpectedly and finds a girl in a bedroom with her boyfriend. After he leaves, she has a conference with the girl and says, "You have your own life to live. You must do what you think is best." Is either of these positions approved by God? What would ...

7. Marriage: Agony Or Ecstasy

Matthew 5:31-32

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King Duncan

... the man should be alone; I will make a helper fit for him." (RSV) Notice God does not say a servant, a slave, a pet. The Living Bible translates these words like this: "a companion for him, a helper suited for his needs." Where did we ever get the Edith Bunker model for a wife in the first place? Certainly it did not come from the Bible. We were created to help one another. A husband and wife should, first of all, be best friends. There is an old rabbinic parable about a king who once assigned a blind man ...

8. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

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King Duncan

... very angry and asked her why she was wrecking his car. Her response was simply, "Because I’m old and I’m rich." Anger is easy. Forgiveness requires the grace of God. We are able to forgive because we have experienced forgiveness ourselves. Edith Bunker, on the television show "ALL IN THE FAMILY," described the confessional boxes in the Roman Catholic Church as "telephone booths to God." Well, maybe they are not quite that. But every prayer must contain an element of confession. We are not all God means ...

9. Grace for a Complaining People

Exodus 16:2-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... us onward. It's like the old timer who was discussing the changes in his church and how they were being received. "Yep," he says, "we've had a lot of changes in our congregation and I've been agin' (against) all of 'em." Archie and Edith Bunker, in the sitcom, All In The Family, loved to sing, "Those were the days" -- a duet yearning for the past. Memories they praised were of Glenn Miller, the Hit Parade, their old LaSalle, Herbert Hoover, and an independent, self-reliant lifestyle that proved "girls were ...

10. Strong in Faith: A Little Dab'll Do Ya

1 Corinthians 16:13

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John E. Harnish

... the TV—we actually thought we could see the picture turning into the colors of the rainbow. How disappointed we were to learn that it would require a whole new TV set, which for the Harnish family would be a long time in coming. Ah, as Archie and Edith Bunker liked to sing, "Those were the days." The days of I Love Lucy and Father Knows Best, Lassie and Roy Rogers. Ike was in the White House and all was well with the world… …or so we thought. Underneath the pleasant 50's facade, African Americans were ...

11. ...More...

Luke 16:19-31

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Leonard Sweet

... and the poor. This middle class held such familiar folk as white-collar Ward and June Cleaver of "Leave It To Beaver", Mike and Carol Brady of "The Brady Bunch," and blue-collar Ralph and Alice Kramden of "The Honeymooners," and later Archie and Edith Bunker of "All in the Family." Schematically, it looked something like this: THE RICH THE EXPANDING MIDDLE CLASS: White Collar Blue Collar THE POOR The new ladder is very different. The two strongest forces in the economic strata are Upscale America at the top ...

12. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

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John R. Brokhoff

... be. He will dream about it and strive to become somebody in the world. This was expressed by Archie Bunker, in "All in the Family." One day he said, "O Edith, I want to be on the team so bad I can taste it. And another thing. You should see the bowling ... a picture of a cannon firing a bowling ball at a set of pins. Beautiful. When you got something like that on your back, Edith, you know you’re somebody." The 1970s have been described as the "Me decade." Narcissism has been reborn in our time. You remember ...

13. Love And Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

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King Duncan

... the living room being waited on hand and foot while Mom slaved in the kitchen, cooking with one hand and folding clean laundry with the other. Those of us who are old enough remember Archie Bunker of the popular 1970s show All in the Family, who never allowed his wife Edith to have a thought or conviction of her own. And Edith certainly didn't have her own bank account or cell phone. They ponder some of the selfish, immature men they have known. Surely God didn't mean for them to surrender to the likes of ...

14. The Resurrection Of Our Lord

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Mark 16:1-20

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Russell F. Anderson

... -- for all believers. 3. Our mission is to show all people how they might all be part of God's family. Archie Bunker of All In The Family fame inhabited a very small world. Only people like himself were completely acceptable. Minorities were like aliens, ... political views varied from his own were communists. He treated his wife, daughter and son-in-law (his family) with disdain. Edith, Archie's wife, on the other hand, unselfishly served the needs of her family and sought to reconcile their differences. They ...

15. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

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... All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother." We men who have wives or sweethearts or sisters - many of us will acknowledge the influence for good our womenfolk have had upon us. Even Archie Bunker used to admit once in a while that he was lucky to have as his wife Edith who was the soul of everything our Lord mentions in the Beatitudes: meek, merciful, pure in heart, and peacemaking. There’s no one so lovely as a Christian woman, and if the Gospel nurtures women like Mary, mother of Jesus ...

16. No Improvement Possible

Matthew 22:34-40

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King Duncan

... message is not a defense of the Christian religion. I remember a sequence on All in the Family several years ago in which Archie Bunker is arguing with "the Meathead", his son-in-law, a professed agnostic. The son-in-law asks, "Archie, if there is a God, why ... is there so much suffering in the world?" There is a long, awkward silence. Finally Archie yells, "Edith, would you get in here and help me? I'm having to defend God all by myself." God does not need our defense. Sometimes ...

17. We Have Waited

Isaiah 25:1-12

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Will Willimon

... men who have arrived far too early to make things ready for the celebrity, the prima donna who is always late. Archie Bunker, in fevered argument with his agnostic, meathead, son-in-law, is asked, “Archie, if there's a God, why is there so much suffering in ... the world?” In the awkward silence which follows, Archie yells, “Edith, would you get in here and help me? I'm having to defend God all by myself." Archie is me all over, especially ...

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