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1 Corinthians 4:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... on an overnight flight. A large, ruddy-faced man sat down beside him, carrying a heavy briefcase. Hyperactive and frantically busy, he ignored Dr. Taylor for a while. Finally, he turned to him and said, "My company got me on this flight at the last minute. I have to ... early Church, when still wet with the fresh dew of Resurrection. He was not really worried about that liberal critic. Billy Graham knows that God's evaluation is the only one that really matters. Even if Time Magazine makes you the Man or Woman ...

2. Easter and a Lost World

Acts 17:16-34

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James Merritt

... a woman rushed up to the cosmetics counter, grabbed this lady by the arm and in a hurried anxious voice said, "Do you still have Elizabeth Taylor's ‘Passion'?" The quick-witted saleslady smiled real big and said, "Honey, if I did, do you think I'd be working here?" Well, I want ... to town and pronounced that she and all her listeners are gods. Shortly thereafter, in a Denver crusade, Billy Graham preached that Jesus alone is God. These well known champions of three world views have rekindled that ancient Mars ...

3. The Conversion of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

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Barbara Brokhoff

... Kennedy have extramarital affairs? Has the passion gone from the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Di? Will Elizabeth Taylor marry yet again? Insatiable is our appetite for singularities in noteworthy people. So, since we know how vastly ... has preached in person to upwards of 100 million people, more than any other clergymen in history, except perhaps Pope John Paul. Billy Graham was quoted in Time (Nov. 14, 1988, p. 86) as saying, "From the very beginning of my career I was frightened - I still am ...

4. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... noises and the fear of falling. All other anxieties are acquired, and most of us have acquired a goodly number. (Myron Taylor, "Facing the Anxieties of Life", Pulpit Digest, November, 1970, p.44) Have you heard the story of the woman who ... He will if we allow Him and through His power and in relationship with Him we can get our lives out of hock. Ruth Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, decided what she wanted to have written on her tombstone when she dies. It's not what you would expect at all, a ...

5. Is Jesus The Only Way?

Matthew 22:1-14

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Bill Bouknight

... serious sin. No, it’s not murder. Even murder can have mitigating factors. According to an article by Daniel Taylor in “Christianity Today,” many Americans consider the worst sin to be intolerance. And guess who are the worst ... there are significant differences. Only Christianity claims that God has visited planet earth in the form of a person. Ann Graham Lotz, daughter of Billy Graham, notes there are all kinds of faith alternatives. Some people follow Mohammed or Buddha or Confucius or Hari Krishna. ...

6. Building A Faith

Acts 1:1-11

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King Duncan

... percent can bear only one minute. (1) We don't like to wait. We are people who want instant gratification. Officer Aaron Graham of Louisville, Kentucky, tells of a woman who was strolling through a park en route to a company picnic. Swinging from her ... . Perhaps the circumstances are not right. Sometimes we are not right. In the May 1998 issue of Christianity Today, Barbara Brown Taylor writes about the strangeness of celebrating Ascension Day in the church. After all, we are celebrating an event in which we ...

7. Time For A New Vision

Acts 1:1-11

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Angela Akers

... TO RE-DEFINE WHAT IS POSSIBLE. Hudson Taylor was one of the most influential missionaries of the twentieth century. He brought the Gospel to China and established a number of thriving churches there. Taylor used to say that there are three ... offers to us eternal life. Because this is a superhuman task, it can only be accomplished through supernatural power. I like Billy Graham's favorite story about a man who was to be electrocuted for murder. The morning of his execution arrived, and the other inmates ...

8. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

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James Merritt

... figured out). After finding out, the first day of class, he was an atheist, I took it upon myself to be his personal Billy Graham and show him the light and bring him to God. I walked in, quite frankly, full of pride, thinking that the conversation wouldn't ... of God, there is No Doubt About It." [1] These ideas come from Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty, (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, subsidiary rights owned by Daniel Taylor, 1986), pp14-15. [2] Lee Strobel, God's Outrageous Claims, p. 102 [3] ...

9. The Ultimate Mountain Top Experience

Luke 9:28-36

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King Duncan

... cable. But, oddly enough, the pier wasn’t pulled out to the ship; but the ship was pulled snugly up to the pier. Prayer,” says Graham, “is the rope that pulls God and us together. But it doesn’t pull God down to us; it pulls us to God. We must learn ... this mountain. They also saw him in the company of Moses and Elijah. This is significant. I love the way Barbara Brown Taylor describes it, “To see him standing there with Moses and Elijah was like seeing the Mount Rushmore of heaven the Lawgiver, the ...

10. Beware! Angels

Matthew 1:18-25

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Will Willimon

... . The book he wrote, Angels: God's Secret Agents (Word, 1975), headed the bestseller list for months and has remained Graham's most popular volume. Several books on the subject followed during the '80s, notably Mortimer Adler's The Angels and ... benign, anthropocentric order, like divine genies. Their mission is to give us what we want. Similarly, the meditations in Terry Lynn Taylor and Mary Beth Crain's Angel Wisdom (Harper-San Francisco) tell us that we have an angel consciousness, 'the consciousness that ...

11. Ultimate Freedom

Galatians 6:11-18

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King Duncan

... confusing America with the Kingdom of God. I was amused to read that an English lady accosted George Beverly Shea after a Billy Graham Crusade in London. She felt it was in poor taste for him to sing an American patriotic song as part of the crusade. ... force in our lives is our income. Prisoners of our possessions. THEN THERE ARE THOSE OF US WHO ARE IMPRISONED BY OUR PAST. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, is the fascinating story of a ship and its crew who are lost in ...

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