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1. A Rock of Slavery and of Freedom
Luke 9:51-62
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Greg Rickel
Monks who started Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina were wandering along a road one day and came upon a crossroad. There was an interesting huge granite flat rock, and they were very intrigued by it. As they talked to neighbors in town about it they were told that the rock was a major selling place for slaves in that sad time in our history. Men, women, and children would stand on that rock...
2. God Remains!
Matthew 13:1-23
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Greg Rickel
Vincent Van Gogh painted once an old deteriorating, half demolished church surrounded by a peasant's cemetery. Van Gogh rarely talked about his meaning in a painting but this was one of the rare instances when he did.  He comments on the ruins of that church, and says he wanted to show how the peasant farmers were laid to rest in the very soil they dug and tilled. He describes them as "sprouting u...
3. The Ever Peering Eye
John 17:20-26
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Greg Rickel
There was a story I once heard of a small New England town which had a tall steeple in the middle of it. The stranger to town noticed that the steeple was boarded up with plywood. He finally had to ask why. A local told him that the steeple had a stained glass window which depicted the eye of God. You know, like the one on the dollar bill, one eye, signifying the all knowing, always watching God. ...
4. The Political Versus the Spiritual
Matthew 22:15-22
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Greg Rickel
The Church should not be doing the business of the Government, and the Government should not be doing the business of the Church. But, those are institutions, needed, necessary. They are not living, human beings. It is like a story I read recently that had the Dean of a Seminary saying to the newest students there, "I want to tell you two things. First, you are probably asking yourself right now ...
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