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Luke 9:51-62

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Leonard Sweet

... in, excuse-making, blame-placing behavior. The life of discipleship thrusts one into the midst of all life's turmoils and triumphs, without excuses. During the 1984 presidential primaries the discrepancy between the career hopes and personal life of one candidate collided all over the network news. Gary Hart, young, bright, promising, was forced to withdraw from the campaign and end his political career because he was caught in suggestive, incriminating circumstances with a young woman, Donna Rice. While ...

2. Commitment Beyond Calculation

Mark 12:38-44

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William G. Carter

... Her presence is a troubling presence. By giving her two tarnished coins, she gives proportionally more than the rest of us. One election year, the press disclosed the generosity of all the candidates in a presidential campaign. In the year before the campaign, Gary Hart gave a total of $140 to all charitable causes. Jesse Jackson, an advocate for the poor, gave a total of $500 to charity, even though his taxable income was well over $100,000. Ronald Reagan, who advocated that private citizens should pick up ...

3. Wisdom for the Living of These Days

Proverbs 2:1-22

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John R. Brokhoff

... because they are “educated”? Theodore Roosevelt once said that if you take a boy who broke into a railroad car and sent him off to college, one day he would steal the whole railroad! Education does not make one wise in character. When Gary Hart was seeking the Democratic nomination for president, he had an affair with Donna Rice, an affair that caused him to drop out of the race. Barbara Walters, on ABC television, revealed that Donna had graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina ...

4. Decisive Battles With Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

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Robert Allen

... and then make little jokes about how public figures shoot themselves in the foot when they yield to temptation and it becomes public knowledge. In recent years, we have become privy to the temptations which have seduced several public figures. Not long ago, Gary Hart was the leading candidate in the Democratic Party for the nomination for President of the United States. But, when he took a cruise on a yacht called The Monkey Business, with a young woman named Donna Rice, his race for the Presidency was ...

5. In Spite of Failures

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Rev. James Brassard

... of turns that led her away from the Lord. She was making headway toward a career in modeling and acting, but some of the photos she had taken were not for family viewing. Her beauty did catch the eye of a married senator from Colorado named Gary Hart. In 1987, when he decided to run for president, a photo of Donna on his lap on a yacht named, “Monkey Business,” derailed his campaign, and ruined his marriage. Suddenly Donna Rice was the most famous adulteress on the planet. Donna was “caught up in a ...

6. A Difficult Day to Follow Jesus

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

... sixty-six recovering alcoholics. The individuals had one thing in common: They were all angry with someone. Teaching forgiveness, Hart found, is one way to break the cycle that causes recovering alcoholics to relapse. If they release their anger through ... McClellan, http://fccbucc.pair.com/lot_for_sale.htm. 3. Bishop William H. Willimon, http://day1.org/950-how_you_will_know_if_its_jesus. 4. Gary D. Stratman, http://www.preaching.com/sermons/11565669/. 5. http://www.predigten.uni-goettingen.de/archiv-7/050911 ...

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