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1. Taking the Risk

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Mickey Anders

At his inauguration as Governor of Alabama in 1963, George C. Wallace proclaimed, "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" That same year Wallace blocked the door of the registrar's office at the University of Alabama, trying to halt National Guardsmen who were there to help enroll the university's first two black students. Wallace ran unsuccessfully for U.S. President in 1964, '68, '72, and '76. In the 1968 election, he received ten million votes. While campaigning in Laurel, Maryland ...

2. By D Grace of God

Luke 6:27-38

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King Duncan

... what happened to you to happen to anyone.” Her words brought George Wallace to tears. A couple of years later, Shirley Chisholm was fighting for minimum wage for domestic workers, George Wallace approached his colleagues and advocated for her legislation. It passed. (8) ... ://nowiknow.com/the-internet-scammer-who-won/. 3. David Lose, http://www.davidlose.net/2019/02/epiphany-7-c-command-or-promise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+davidlose%2FIsqE+%28…In+the+Meantime%29“Teacher ...

3. Have You Gone Far Enough?

Mark 8:27-30

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Stephen M. Crotts

... other option here is to say that Jesus Christ is who he says he is -- God! C. S. Lewis, a professor at both Oxford and CambridgeUniversities, ably summed up the situation for us ... all levels that he could no longer deny Jesus was who he said he was. And Lew Wallace set his book aside to begin another one, Ben Hur, a novel about the life-changing impact ... suicide to do so! The credentials of Christ are impeccable. As George Bancroft states, "Christianity has attracted to itself the profoundest thinkers of the ...

4. How to Escape Being Possessed By Our Possessions

Luke 12:13-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... how they spend themselves or refuse to spend themselves in love to others. George Willis Spann lived in Pueblo, Colorado. They called him “Pop” Spann. For 34 ... built a handsome new school building for $375,000. It proudly bears the name, “George Willis Spann” in honor of “Pop,” the man who lived a life the same ... Wallace, Many Things in Paradise, New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1955, pp. 145-46. 3. Ronald S. Wallace, Many Things in Parables, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955, p. 146. 4. George ...

5. The Gates of Hell

Matthew 16:13-20

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King Duncan

... its causes. In 1989, former President George Bush, our current president's father, was entering St. John's Episcopal Church to attend a worship service. A homeless man, William Wallace Brown Jr., stopped him and asked ... Wallace Brown understood that he was on a battle ship, and with his meager resources, he wanted to do his part. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." That's who we are. That's what we are about. "Gentlemen, ladies, take your battle stations. Full speed ahead." 1. The Jokesmith. 2. C ...

6. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

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Phil Thrailkill

... black woman, enrolled that day as a freshman. Federal troops ensured her entrance, but the doorway was blocked by Governor George Wallace. Holding out for segregation, the governor ultimately failed, and Ms. Malone became the first African-American to graduate from the ... events. Flight attendants and pilots report a dramatic increase in problem passengers: 66 incidents in 1997, 534 in 1999. C. Leslie Charles, author of Why Is Everyone So Cranky? writes: “I'm describing a fuming, unrelenting, sense of anger ...

7. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

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Arley K. Fadness

... ), the underlying hostility of Edom toward Israel is evident. When Jerusalem fell in 586 B.C., Edom rejoiced at the disaster that fell upon Israel, a fact that Israel never forgot ... an excuse to feed them, the men grew listless and stopped singing. And commenting on the incident George Moore said, â€˜The roads to nowhere are difficult to make. For a person to work well and ... Today (Lima, Ohio: CSS Publishing Company, Inc., 1997). 3. J. Wallace Hamilton, Where Now Is Thy God? (Old Tappan, New Jersey: ...

8. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

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Herchel H. Sheets

... Ohio, as a child, but she says there were not any crippled children around when she was there. The principal, Miss C. Jeannette Wallace, wouldn’t allow it. Though they were maimed in body, she saw to it that they were not crippled in spirit. ... faith, it has might, in part, because it inspires one to action in the direction of the purposes of God. The Acceptance Of Trust George A. Buttrick asks, "What is faith?" and then answers, "An expectancy of the soul, a thrust into the future, an innate trust in God." ...

9. I Believe In Jesus Christ

Colossians 1:15-23

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Bill Bouknight

... your core conviction. You are saying with St. Paul, “For me to live is Christ.” (Phil. 1:21) The late evangelist Wallace Chappell used to say, “In some people’s lives, Christ is present. In some people’s lives, Christ is prominent. But ... the desire of your heart. (Solo is sung- “Give Me Jesus.”) (1) Hunter, George G., III, How to Reach Secular People, (Abingdon: Nashville,1992), p. 94. (2) Howell, James C., The Life We Claim, (Abingdon: Nashville, 2005), p. 41. (3) Friedman, Thomas L., From ...

10. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

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James Angell

... Jones, Ralph Sockman, George Buttrick, Peter Marshall, Donald Baillie, James Stewart, and Arthur John Gossip. To allow myself the luxury of a second decalogue, I also name Louis Evans, Carlyle Marney, James Pike, Ted Loder, Wallace Hamilton, Gerald Kennedy, ... , Reinhold Niebuhr, Frederick Buechner, Walter Brueggemann, C. S. Lewis, Robert McAfee Brown, Ernest Fremont Tittle, John Sutherland Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David H. C. Read, Joseph Ford Newton, Ernest Campbell, ...

11. The Life You've Always Wanted

Acts 5:27-32

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Charley Reeb

... I want to receive your unconditional love, but I don’t want to share it with others.” During the Revolutionary War, George Washington had many soldiers volunteer to fight during the summer months. Yet as winter approached, with rations in short supply and ... , 2001), p. 11. 2. Quoted in David C. Cooper, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (Atlanta: Discover Life Ministries, 2000), p. 19. Exact author and source of poem unknown. 3. Ibid., pp. 5-7. 4. J. Wallace Hamilton, Ride the Wild Horses: The Christian ...

12. Facing Difficult Decisions in Life! Part VI

Philippians 1:1-11

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Eric Ritz

J. Wallace Hamilton, one of the great voices of Methodism, once shared an old story that I want to use to open our sermon today. "An ... People like Robert Reed, David Ring, and Joni Erikson Tada teach us that joy is always only one decision away. Choose God. George MacDonald had great insights when he wrote, "It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence." C. S. Lewis says it better: "Joy is the serious business of heaven--but it is not solemn." This is why Paul ...

13. Watching Jesus

Luke 14:1-14

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Wallace H. Kirby

Sometimes the background comments, the words used to provide the setting for the words and actions of Jesus are worth pondering. This may be the case in this passage where Luke notes, "They were watching him." (14:1b) Jesus was under surveillance. Is it any wonder? After all, he was a disturbing presence. He upset the tidiness of legalistic religion, declaring that all are bankrupt before God and that the main concern is God’s mercy, not our dubious schemes to make ourselves acceptable to God. To those who ...

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