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Hebrews 13:1-25

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Leonard Sweet

... and faint not." Or here are verses of Scripture, words by the greatest writer perhaps to have ever lived, a writer who penned these words, which when translated into the King James language, become in economist George Kennan's words "one of the most beautiful sentences in the English language" (George F. Kennan, Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy [New York: W. W. Norton, 1993], 40): · "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the ...

2. The Cream of the Crop, or The Skimmed Milk of the Earth

Luke 14:1, 7-14

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Leonard Sweet

... crook, are you? You are an honest fellow, are you not? Well then, respect the honest fellow in yourself and recognize that the honest fellow is never insignificant. Don't confuse "coming to terms with yourself" with "recognizing your insignificance." (As quoted in George F. Kennan, Around the Cragged Hill [New York: W. W. Norton, 1993], 22.) Jesus' message to his fellow guests and his host at the banquet urged them to act humbly without expecting any rewards at least not from the mouths and hands of fellow ...

3. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

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Donald B. Strobe

... , they will sometimes walk right off a cliff while grazing. The symbol of the shepherd is the shepherd’s “crook” which is used to reach out and rescue the sheep from their own stupidity. And who will rescue us from ours? When George F. Kennan received the Albert Einstein Peace prize in 1981 he declared, “We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of ...

4. Transfiguration

2 Peter 1:12-21, Daniel 7:1-14, Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 17:1-13

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Russell F. Anderson

Theme: The transfiguration of Christ was an experience of divine transcendence. The Spirit gifts his children with glimpses of the transcendent Christ and the life to come. COMMENTARY Old Testament: Exodus 24:12-18 God instructs Moses to ascend Mount Sinai to receive the law of the Lord. The glory of God appeared to the people on top of the mountain as a consuming fire. Moses enters the mysterious cloud and approaches the fire to receive the divine revelation. Old Testament: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 In the ...

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