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Romans 10:5-15

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... that question implies and how to answer it is found in Scripture reading for this morning. Romans 10:5-15 (NRSV) [5] Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that "the person who does these things will live by them." [6] ... comes up with the idea to bring back some of the old radio stars and build an episode around them. And the key player happens to be Edwin Carp. Without him the show just won't make. He finally agrees and this is one of the poems he recites on air in the show. FEET ...

2. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

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Leonard Mann

... - that Lincoln lad? Young Abe reading borrowed books by firelight, what was in him? I doubt if any neighbor suspected or imagined. Edwin Markham wrote: "The color of the ground was in him, the smack and tang of elemental things." But there was more. I ... can range only to the end of his own tether. But how far is this? Probably much farther than most of us suppose. When Grandma Moses was seventy, it may have been assumed that her life was almost done. Not so. After that she became one of the most widely known ...

3. I Saw the Light

Luke 9:28-43

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Lori Wagner

In February of 1971, a man named Edwin Robinson from Falmouth, Maine sharply jack-knifed his tractor-trailer to avoid hitting a car sliding across the roadway. As a ... Ananias. From there, Paul’s life was changed. Paul went on to become the greatest missionary in the history of Christianity. In the time of the Exodus,we learn that Moses’ face shone with the light of God as he returned from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets containing God’s commandments in his hands. In 18th century England, John Wesley ...

4. Celebrating Eucharistic Time

Mark 14:12-26

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Charles R. Leary

... viewers seemed endless. A black woman entered the line seeking to have a last look at the countenance Edwin Markham called “that tender, tragic, everchanging face.” She inched forward with the line of steadily extending mourners ... bad times.” I know no better model for understanding God’s promise than the wedding vow. But I have to say, I was not there when Moses sealed the covenant with blood. I was not there when Jesus declared, “This is my Body ... This is my Blood of the new covenant ...” But ...

5. Proper 15

Mt 15:21-28 · Ex 16:2-15 · Rom 11:13-16, 29-32 · Ps 78

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John R. Brokhoff

... the gospel to gentiles. The Lectionary Lesson 1 (Exodus 16:2-15). Yahweh provides food for the Israelites. Under the leadership of Moses, the Israelites crossed the Red Sea to the wilderness of Sin. In a wilderness there is no food. The people complain and ... Chase humiliated him and plotted against him, but Lincoln praised Chase and made him chief justice of the Supreme Court. Edwin Stanton scorned him as an imbecile, but Lincoln made him secretary of war. A Romanian proverb: "The sword will never sever ...

6. Mary of Nazareth

Isaiah 7:1-25

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Warren Thomas Smith

... is one of six women so named in the New Testament. Mary is the Greek form of the Hebrew, Miriam, meaning exalted. Moses’ sister bore that splendid name. Mary of Nazareth - has any individual in Scripture suffered more at the hands of the church? Rome has ... experienced it, and may Pentecost find us on our knees. 1. "Mary Pondered All These Things" by Edwin McNeill Poteat in Christ In Poetry, ed. by Clark (New York: Association Press, 1952), p. 18. Used by permission. 2. Roland H. Bainton, The Martin ...

7. Why Fear Growing Old?

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Robert G. Tuttle

... was made. Our times are in His Hand Who sayeth, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid!" And Edwin Markham gives us a vital cue: They who can smile when others hate, Nor bind the heart with frosts of fate, Their feet will go with ... the promise, "I have made and I will bear, I will carry and deliver you - even to your old age." To Grandma Moses and others, "Life begins at eighty." Bishop Welch was writing and speaking creatively and with conviction when he was 103. Lyman ...

8. Enduring

Mark 13:1-31

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Warren Thomas Smith

... legalists had turned the free, exuberant faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob into an unbending lifestyle. Moses’ Commandments had been made inflexible. Prophets were no longer permitted to be those free, high-soaring spirits ... Earth. New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth:1 Edwin Prince Booth, late historian at Boston University, said he planned - just before death - to secure a high-powered rifle and blow to bits ...

9. God Is the Hound of Heaven

Jeremiah 31:7-14

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Richard Gribble

... aisle, the Democratic camp: Gideon Welles was made Secretary of the Navy, Montgomery Blair was appointed Postmaster General, and Edwin Stanton, a man who on more than one occasion publicly repudiated Lincoln, calling him unqualified to be president of ... of Egypt when the Israelites, who had been placed in bondage by Pharaoh, called out to God seeking deliverance. Thus, God raised Moses who was charged to lead the people from slavery in Egypt back to the land promised to Abraham many generations earlier. After ...

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