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Matthew 13:1-23

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King Duncan

... held captive in Lebanon for 6 1/2 years. “During his captivity, Sutherland was held in 26 locations. Some of his cells were cold, dark, underground 6x6 holes. After 18 months of captivity, Sutherland was put in a solitary underground cell.” He became so discouraged ... our freedom means to us. We have this freedom because some amazing people people like Thomas Jefferson, John Madison, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and many others planted seeds in this new world, seeds of democracy and human rights ...

2. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

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... of God and the peace of Christ be with you always. Amen. 1. Daily Guideposts (Mt. Carmel, New York: Guideposts, 1986), p. 303. 2. Howard Clark Kee, Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 78-79. 3. John Sutherland Bonnell, Do You Want to be Healed?" (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), p. 31. 4. George A. Buttrick, Prayer (Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1941), p. 118. 5. Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness (New York: Norton, 1979), p. 107.

3. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

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James Angell

... I was born, 1920, have been G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Leslie Weatherhead, E. Stanley Jones, Ralph Sockman, George Buttrick, Peter Marshall, Donald Baillie, James Stewart, and Arthur John Gossip. To allow myself the luxury of a second decalogue ... Luccock, 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 ...

4. Easter 4

John 10:22-42, Acts 13:13-52, Numbers 27:12-23, Revelation 7:9-17

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George Bass

THEOLOGICAL CLUE Good Shepherd Sunday fell on the Second Sunday after Easter in the classic calendar and lectionary; it now occurs on the Fourth Sunday of Easter (or, in the older scheme, on the Third Sunday after Easter). Accordingly, the traditional gospel (John 10:11-16) is retained, specifically in Year/Cycle B of the contemporary lectionaries, but John 10 is also employed as the Gospel in Years/Cycles A and C. Last Sunday's theme emphasized that Jesus Christ was the Paschal Lamb, who was sacrificed at ...

5. The Final Farewell

Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

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George Bass

The Ascension of our Lord used to be celebrated universally and dramatically. Some churches had special holes in their roofs that were used on Ascension Day; when the words were read - "While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven" - a likeness of the risen Lord would be hauled up from the floor of the nave to and through the roof and out of sight of the people worshiping below. The same hole was used on the Day of Pentecost when, in some of these same churches, roses were ...

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