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Mark 15:21-32

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Grant R. Osborne

... , a young boy who is transported to Narnia, is enticed by the temptation of “Turkish Delight” and becomes a slave to the White Witch. There seems to be no way for Edmund to be free of the witch’s clutches. However, Aslan (clearly a Christ figure) offers himself to the White Witch in exchange for Edmund’s freedom. The White Witch quickly agrees, thinking that she has won. Edmund is set free, and Aslan is killed. (Although, just as with Jesus, death and seeming defeat are not the final word.) In the ...

2. When The Saints Come Marching In

Revelation 7:9-17

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Robert S. Crilley

... would appear, is for hell not heaven! It's hell, after all, which supplies one with solitary confinement. Or as Edmund Steimle so aptly described it: "a vast gray city constantly expanding, because nobody can stand to live next door to anyone ... marvelous portrayal of the Lord's all-encompassing love. Here, gathered around the throne and the Lamb, stands this vast community robed in white, with palm branches in their hands, crying out in a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, ...

3. Cross Eyed: Triumph

John 20:1-18

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... one of the sons of Adam, might live. It's dawn. Morning is coming. Lucy and Susan, Edmund's sisters have spent the night crying over the dead body of Aslan. As the dawn begins to break, Lucy notices mice all over Aslan's body. Susan reacts with revulsion, but Lucy sees that the mice are gnawing at the ropes the White Witch used to bind Aslan. Eventually the mice cut through the ropes and they fall away. Finally, when they can cry no more, Susan tells Lucy that they should go. Lucy says, "I'm so cold." They ...

4. The Trials of Peter and of Jesus

Luke 22:66--23:25, Luke 22:63-65, Luke 22:54-62

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R.T. France

... refusal to believe his sister Lucy’s tale of what has happened in Narnia and his subsequently falling prey to the seductions of the Queen (also the White Witch), who is the enemy of Aslan. In the process of this seduction—which appeals to his gluttony, his vanity, and his illusions—Edmund betrays his siblings and creates the need for Aslan to die in order to satisfy the witch’s demands for blood so that Narnia will not “be overturned and perish in fire and water.” Having come to the recognition ...

5. Samuel Confronts the People

1 Samuel 12:1-25

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... , one of the four children who make their way into Narnia, is a disgruntled child, a condition that makes him vulnerable to the seductions of the evil White Witch, who has taken charge of Narnia. “She could make things look like what they aren’t” (152). Consumed with himself, Edmund falls prey to her deceit (in chap. 4). Eventually he sees that the seduction is just that—empty and dangerous, not only to him but also to his siblings. He begins to see his selfishness, and his heart softens; in the ...

6. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... s plea a dramatization of the experience of a person who calls on God in prayer for help and God doesn’t answer. Edmund Steimle, for example, deals with this miracle as a case history of unanswered prayer. He sees in the woman’s reaction the ... of God’s great gift of faith operating effectively in the life of this particular woman. There was once a little old man with a long white beard. He had a great amount of faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. With everyone he met, he just had to share his ...

7. From Mountain to Mission

Mark 9:2-13

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David E. Leininger

... who are old enough certainly recall that amazing story a half-century ago. May 29, 1953. A New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, are the first ever to reach Everest's summit. Here was a mountain - ... ordinary ends. No sooner do they arrive than Jesus is suddenly "transfigured." He "glowed." As the text has it, "his clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them." Not only out of the ordinary, but absolutely out of this world - which, of ...

8. Connected To God

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Lee Griess

... first chapter of Acts, after Jesus had ascended into heaven, the disciples stood there gazing into the sky. Suddenly two men dressed in white appeared beside them and said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up in the sky? This very Jesus who has ... an example of this. When Sir Edmund Hillary and his native guide, Tensing, made their historic climb up Mount Everest, Hillary slipped, lost his footing, and fell into a treacherous crevice. Fortunately, Sir Edmund and the guide were tied together ...

9. Up And Down The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

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Donald Dotterer

... when Jesus was praying that his face was changed, that he received the heavenly light and power which made his clothing a dazzling white. Therefore it is important to realize that it was in the experience of prayer that Jesus discovered the meaning of his mission; it ... love of God, the peace of Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you always. Amen. 1. Sir Edmund Hillary, Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1975), p. 130. 2. Ibid, p. 308. Quoted with ...

10. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

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Albert G. Butzer III

... than it did way back when. In fact, the longer the delay, the easier it is to lose hope that he will ever return at all. Edmund Steimle, a Lutheran minister, once wrote about Christ’s delayed return in these words: On the roof of the Riverside Church in New York is the ... . Police discover her body several weeks Racial tensions erupt following the shooting of a black man by a white police officer. Fighting between Israel and Palestine escalates following Israel’s decision to close off access to the temple ...

11. In the Wilderness of Temptation

Mark 1:9-15

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... ' book, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, the wicked queen entices the boy, Edmund, with a box of enchanted Turkish Delight. Each piece is sweet and delicious, and Edmund has never tasted anything better. There is only one problem. The more he eats ... tempted and sometimes we act without even thinking. Everyone of us is tempted in some form or fashion. It might be to tell that little white lie to make yourself look better in the eyes of others. It might be that you're tempted to switch the price tags on ...

12. The Light from the Cliff

Matthew 5:13-20

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Lori Wagner

... water in the world, particularly in November when vicious storms have sunk more than 350 ships, including the infamous Edmund Fitzgerald, whose 29 crewmen have never been found.The watery waves of the lake during the tempestuous November storms feel ... lighthouse was completed in 1910 sporting a huge Fresnel clam shell lens containing 242 prisms and rotates. Its blindingly bright, flashing, white beam could be seen for 22 miles, illuminating the entire landscape, town, cliff, and sea. Built upon a cliff, the ...

13. Cross Eyed: Anger

John 2:13-22

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Edmund come to a grassy area. The field covers an area almost as far as the eye can see in greenery, except for one small white spot. The children can't figure out what the white spot is from a distance, so they hike down to it and discover that it's a lamb. This white ... know how to get to the land of Aslan. While the lamb is giving them directions a marvelous thing happens: "His snowy white flushed into tawny gold and his size changed and he was Aslan himself towering above them and scattering light from his ...

14. Holy Monday

Matthew 21:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Righteous anger has been the source of a great many social reforms. Edmund Burke, you remember, said that “all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good folks to remain silent.” Jesus did not ... described the various colors which one ought to wear together. They had several color groupings: “Basic black,” “White, Off-white,” “Pinks.” The colors that intrigued me were what were called “The Adaptable Neutrals.” That describes a ...

15. An Unnerving Experience

Mark 9:2-13

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King Duncan

... their way up to the peak of the mountain. None stopped to help. By the time they started back down, it was too late. Sir Edmund Hillary, who was on the team that first climbed Everest in 1953, called it “horrifying” that climbers would leave a dying man. His own ... preacher and ex‑slave who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. He and his followers murdered more than 50 whites, and Turner was caught and hanged. Turner knew the Bible well, says Lang, but like many revolutionary leaders, he chose to ...

16. The Stranger at the Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

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George Bass

... a quick exit from the tomb, but it didn’t. What did shake them up was the discovery of a strange man, dressed in white, who noticed their consternation and spoke to them. "Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he ... the Tree has turned into triumph at the Tomb. Through his death and resurrection Jesus has delivered all of us from sin and death. Edmund Budry’s hymn sums it up: Thine is the glory, Risen, conqu’ring Son; Endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death ...

17. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

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King Duncan

... the heavens until a cloud hid him from their sight. Deus Ascendit. As the disciples stood there gazing into the sky, two men dressed in white stood beside them and said, “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been ... better they felt about Christ the better they felt about one another. On the 29th day of May 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and his native guide Tenzing Norgay became the very first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount ...

18. I'm Mad And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!

John 2:12-25

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King Duncan

... his gun in her ear, and said, "This is the last time I'm gonna tell ya. You're never gonna go to school with white boys." Carmichael took his niece home in shock. Naturally, she was a frightened mess. At that moment Stokely Carmichael vowed that he would never let ... of Independence and perhaps one of the period's most noted legal minds. In 1776 George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and Edmund Pendleton began the task of reworking and updating the laws of the state of Virginia. The task took most of their ...

19. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

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King Duncan

... the heavens until a cloud hid him from their sight. Deus Ascendit. As the disciples stood there gazing into the sky, two men dressed in white stood beside them and said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been taken ... respect among the disciples. The better they felt about Christ the better they felt about one another. When Sir Edmund Hillary and his native guide, Tensing, made their historic climb up Mount Everest, Hillary slipped, lost his footing and ...

20. Great Joy

Isaiah 35:1-10

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John E. Harnish

... hear it, feel it? Can you sense the underground river of joy welling up to eternal life? Joy like streams in the desert, bubbling up to eternal life. When Lucy and Peter and Susan and Edmund first make their way through the wardrobe and into Narnia, they find a world frozen under the curse of the White Witch; a land of hopelessness and death where Lewis says it was "always winter, but never Christmas." Hard, cold, where living things are turned into lifeless, stone statues. But planted deep within the heart ...

21. The Revelation Code V: Cruisin' Toward the Dream

Revelation 21:1-27

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John E. Harnish

... guess what? We are going to be the bride! There's going to be a wedding, and we will all be there, all dressed up in white, like a bride adorned for her husband. Do you see why this book has been such a source of strength at times when the church ... of their journey through the land of Narnia. Lewis writes: Suddenly they shifted their eyes to another spot, and then Peter and Edmund and Lucy gasped with amazement and shouted out and began waving: for there they saw their own father and mother, waving back ...

22. Pentecost -- A Wild, Weird, Wonderful Day

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John A. Stroman

... has been characterized as the movement from dissidence to harmony. How tragic is this problem of our not being able to hear one another. Whites do not hear blacks. The affluent, you and I, do not hear the voices of the poor. Adults do not hear the muffled cries ... are drunk on new wine," others mockingly replied. They were drunk, but not with new wine. They were drunk in what Edmund Steimle called "the dazzling possibilities of the love of God breaking out all over the place, smashing down barriers and opening ...

23. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

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George Bass

... outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her ... have been distorted by her tears, couldn’t it? But it may have been that the risen Lord looked different than he had before his death, as Edmund Steimle suggests. In Luke’s account of the events of resurrection day, two of Jesus’ disciples had a similar experience to Mary Magdalene’s as they were walking ...

24. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... the Soviet Union. Cousins pointed out that history is filled with such unpredictable incidents, such incongruities. He quoted Edmund Burkes’ famous aphorism, “History is filled with momentous trifles, little things that nobody pays any attention to, that ... thing happened, perhaps the only thing that could have made a difference and broken the ice. President Jimmy Carter, who was in the White House at that time, came into the room and was about to be seated. But before he was seated, he saw President Nixon ...

25. A Cloud of Witness

Hebrews 12:1-13

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King Duncan

... faith past and present, who through times of trial have observed the faithfulness of God. Finally his eyes lighted on two white circles near the ceiling, one on the right‑hand wall, the other on the left. In reality, these were plastic covers ... at the right hand of the throne of God.” In 1953 the first people to climb to the top of Mt. Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide. Norgay’s son, Jamling Norgay, climbed Mt. Everest in 1999. He wrote a book called TOUCHING MY FATHER ...

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