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Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... staff approached St. Frederick's athletic director, James Murphy. There had been a terrible mistake; Caldwell Parish didn't allow people of color in the club. Dondre was not welcome to play. Murphy gathered together his seniors, including Dondre, to break ... only nonwhite child on the trip, but that didn't cause any problems with the other children. He and his roommate, Frank Miller, got along fine once they realized their mutual passion for water balloons. The boys spent their spare time soaking unsuspecting ...

2. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.” And that real clincher, “Murphy was an optimist.” Murphy’s Law is amply illustrated in a joke about a man who was crawling through the desert on his hands ... beyond this one. Much beloved Episcopal Bishop Warren Chandler lay dying. A close friend sat by his bedside. “Please tell me frankly,” said his friend, “do you dread crossing the river of death?” The old bishop smiled weakly and said with conviction, “ ...

3. Why Earthly Powers Need No Longer Enslave

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... , Old Testament Theology, Vol. II, trans. D. M. G. Stalker (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965), p. 311. 4. Shemaryahu Talmon, “Daniel,” in Robert Alter and Frank Kermode, ed., The Literary Guide to the Bible (Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1987), pp. 347-348. 5. This point has been made previously by Childs, pp. 618ff. 6. Metzger and Murphy, p. 1138OT. 7. Augustine, City of God (413-426), I.Pref. 8. For details on the power of the new economy, see Sennett. 9. Blaise Pascal, Pensées ...

4. Dad: The Head of a Godly Family

Joshua 24:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... son because he was not measuring up to his expectations. After a few choice words, the father said, "Frankly, I'm just ashamed of you; you still don't have a job; when George Washington was your ... 5 Male prisoners per 1,000 males: 1960: 230 1990: 574 Percent of children living apart from their fathers: 1960" 17.5 1990: 36.35 "So what?" says Murphy Brown? Well, for starters, crime, that's what. Three words you never hear when it comes to the debate on crime are these: illegitimacy and fatherless families. Since ...

5. Religious Rage

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... We would never think or say those unkind things about the infants of the Babylonians. I once heard Father Roland Murphy, recently retired from the Divinity School, say, "It seems bad taste for the people who dropped the bomb on ... me, not liking the way I said things, accusing me of sexism. She impressed me as one of the most angry people I had ever met. Frankly, I hoped that she would trust her instincts and drop the course. But she didn't. She stayed for the whole course, arguing, fighting, raging every ...

6. Oh, Jerusalem

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

Nowadays we have 24-hour news stations, satellite radio, email alerts, and other ways of finding out breaking news pretty much the instant it is happening. But it wasn't always so. When John Adams acted as an ambassador to Europe during the Revolutionary War he could go for months without hearing from the Continental Congress. He arranged loans of millions of dollars to help the fledgling nation, but no one back in America knew. The Battle of New Orleans was a decisive victory for the new nation in the War ...

7. Holy Ground

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

The Bible — under $10 if you do a little shopping. Energy — read under natural sunlight and your only cost is the overpriced floofy coffee you bought from that boutique coffee bar — what? $5 or $6. Reading John 13 and living like Jesus — priceless! Post-Civil-War America was a country anxious to read about how the other half lived. There was a great appetite for reading, and the many periodicals of the era filled their pages with breathless accounts of what other people were doing. Phebe Gibbons was a ...

8. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 27:1-27

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

Antithetic parallelism is frequent in this chapter, in contrast to chapters 25–26. The sayings seem to be generally related in couplets, thanks to content and also catchwords (e.g., Hb. hll, to boast or praise, in vv. 1–2). There are several admonitions and the final verses (23–27) form a special unit. 27:1 One should concentrate on the present moment because of one’s ignorance of the future. This is a commonplace. See Ecclesiastes 11:4, 6; James 4:13–15; and Amenemope 19.13 (ANET, p. 423). 27:2 Synonymous ...

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