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Matthew 6:19-24

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J. Howard Olds

... Isn't that the greatest struggle of the affluent with illness? What do you mean we cannot buy our way back to health? Somebody needs to fix it. Get some medicine. Say some prayers. Hurry up and get things back to normal. Possessions won't guarantee happiness. How is it George Strait puts it when a man's wife leaves him? I've got a furnished house, a diamond ring And a lonely heart full of love And I can't even give it away! Possessions won't guarantee hope. Jesus said, "What good is it for a man to gain the ...

2. The Four Scents of Adventing

Mark 1:1-8

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Leonard Sweet

... . Same thing goes with good barbecue. Or a big old pot roast. The smell entices and entrances over hours of cooking. There are distinctive aromas that are attached to Advent. The spicy sweet smell of Christmas cookies. (Can’t you hear George Strait singing “I Sure Do Like Those Christmas Cookies, Sugar”). The fresh fragrance of evergreens brought inside. (I’m hearing the Robert Shaw Chorale singing “O Tannenbaum.” What about you?) If you live in northern climates there is the smell of increased ...

3. Ready for the Kingdom of God?

Luke 13:31-35, Luke 13:22-30, Luke 13:18-21

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R.T. France

... way that leadeth unto the administration of Death. . . . “The Lord says, Strive to enter in at the strait gate [Luke 13:24], the gate to which I sent thee; for strait is the gate that which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it [Matt. 7:14]. ... The Incarnation and Passion,” by Henry Vaughan. Vaughan (1621–95), a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet, was greatly influenced by George Herbert, to whom he attributed his conversion to Christ. A few verses from this poem are as follows: Lord! When ...

4. Proper 9

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10, Mark 6:1-13, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Russell F. Anderson

... Leave home without them (vv. 8-11). The American Express commercials show some hapless travelers caught in some dire straits because they find themselves without funds. The punch line for the commercial goes: "American Express Travelers' Checks, don't ... rather than combat. The United States has several times decided to enlist military heroes as Presidents. Our first President, George Washington, gained fame first as a victorious general. He proved to be an effective leader. However, Ulysses S. Grant, ...

5. What Is Your Life?

James 4:13-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... would on one condition. He said, "Tell me, how intelligent looking a person as you appear to be, has allowed yourself to get into these straits." And with that, the beggar turned red in the face with anger, and he said, "Listen, if you had had happen to you what ... same set of circumstances? (John Claypool, "Life is a Gift", sermon preached at Calvary Episcopal, Memphis, TN, February 29, 1990). George Buttrick gets at the same question with a different metaphor. He said, "Why is it, do you suppose, that the ...

6. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... called to a work of the kingdom, and another to discover the wonder of God’s provision for that work: “In 1880 George and Sarah Clarke, purchased the lease for the Pacific Beer Garden. Dropping the word Beer, the couple added the word Mission, and ... souls being saved each night, of men and women whose lives were salvaged. They asked why they should find themselves in such straits while doing his work. They remained in simple faith and in earnest pleading until dawn. When they walked out of their house ...

7. The Truth about Trouble

2 Timothy 4:16-18

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James Merritt

... Walter Scott; lock him in prison and you have John Bunyan; bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have George Washington; raise him in poverty and you have Abraham Lincoln; strike him down with infantile paralysis and you will have Franklin Delano ... the midst of this trouble he wrote these words in his spiritual journal: "First, He brought me here, it is by His will I am in this strait place; in that fact I will rest. He will keep me here in His love, and give me grace to behave as His child. Then, He ...

8. The Stranger at the Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

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George Bass

You can’t blame the women, can you, for being amazed and afraid when they had that most unusual experience on that first Easter morning at the tomb? Wouldn’t you likely have done the same thing? They simply got out of there as fast as they could and didn’t tell anyone about the encounter with the angel (at least, not right away). Suppose you had buried a loved one, possibly in a mausoleum-type structure, had seen the grave slab sealed into place, and returned a couple days later only to find the entrance ...

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