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Luke 12:35-48

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Brett Blair

... into it for a minute and I was delighted when Gorbachev, far from a world dictator, turned out to be the single most responsible person for the demise of Soviet Russia. Harold Camping, president of Family Radio, predicted the world would end in September of 1994. Grant R. Jeffrey wrote a popular book called Armageddon stating that the year 2000 was the most likely date of the world’s end. Now that we are moving past the year 2000 and the year 2001 hopefully most of these doom and gloomers will give it a ...

2. Revised and Revisioned

John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41, John 10:1-21

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Lori Wagner

... entire movie is spent trying to stop the antics of the figure he has granted with the independence and unpredictability of “life.” While these stories are rather tame, there ... you are probably familiar with the Gollum (spelled Gollum) in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. What do you remember ... . Faith is less something to be declared than discovered. **For more on this see The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty [Doubleday, 2014]. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text ...

3. Managing Your Anger

Romans 12:9-21

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King Duncan

... anyone here ever gotten fed up with your spouse--keep your hands down, ladies--with one of your offspring--with a parent? Amy Grant, one of the biggest names in contemporary Christian music, was just a teenager when she caught the ear of a record producer. Out ... the example of his Lord, "Do not repay anyone evil for evil." 1. Jeffrey Zaslow. TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990), p. 266. 2. Charles R. Swindoll, THREE STEPS FORWARD/TWO STEPS BACK (New York: Bantam Books Inc., ...

4. Gentiles Exemplify True Discipleship

Mark 7:31-37, Mark 7:24-30

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Grant R. Osborne

Big Idea: Salvation and the kingdom blessings, heretofore experienced primarily by the Jews, are now extended to the Gentiles. A Gentile woman of Tyre shows remarkable faith and humility, and a deaf mute in the Decapolis experiences messianic healing. Understanding the Text Mark now turns to examples of faith, as the Syrophoenician woman is one of the “little people” in Mark, characters who appear only once but carry the theme of what a true disciple should be. As such, she gives a lesson to the disciples ...

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