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Romans 8:12-17

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William G. Carter

... . At lunch on that Saturday, we went to St. Vincent's Catholic Church in Germantown. That parish runs a soup kitchen in their fellowship hall. The kids in our class dished up canned ravioli and vegetables for about 200 people who came through the food line. They themselves didn' ... into all of that is to live into the full inheritance of all God chooses to give us. The poet Wendell Berry sums this up when he prays these words: O Thou, far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose ...

2. Designated Son Of God

Romans 1:1-17

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Frank Luchsinger

... in the largest lecture hall at Union Theological Seminary. Students brought their friends and those friends brought friends until the place was standing room only. Striding about the lecture hall, as Buechner describes ... kinds of ways we name this season "Holy." Cedar evergreens remind us of the royalty of Christ: Christ the King. With its sharp points and red berries, holly, even in the midst of our festivity, foreshadows the crucifixion. And the hard candy shaped for a shepherd's staff turned on its head ...

3. Advent 2

Matthew 3:1-12, Isaiah 11:1-16, Romans 14:1--15:13

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Russell F. Anderson

... would pause, stare, and glance at other people around them with a look that spoke, "When did this guy get into the fermented berries?" Then they would skitter off, sometimes glancing back over their shoulders at this peculiar man. It is not likely that many of ... . Living intimately with several other men, there was no hiding from himself. Anderson describes this existence as "living in a hall of mirrors." The theme of guilt runs through the narrative and one of the most touching moments is when Anderson, a ...

4. Signs of Life

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... were owned by a little old lady who never read faster than 50 words a minute. In a bakery window: Shortcake take it home and berry it. In a radiator repair shop's advertisement: Take Us To Your Leaker. On a car in Kansas City, Mo.: Pass with care driver chews ... of Mercy." On a school bulletin board: "Free! Wisdom on Mondays through Fridays. Bring your own container." In a dance hall: "Good clean dancing every night but Sunday." Sign on a university bulletin board: "Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria ...

5. Mary and Martha: Nine to Five and Five to Nine

Luke 10:38-42

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Maurice A. Fetty

... as though people really lived together there, knew each other, shared a lifestyle and value system, rather than just nodding in the hall on the way to the next activity with iPods in their ears. Woman: If we identify primarily with our work rather than ... does that say about child rearing and the values we pass on to the next generation? Harvard's well-known physician-professor T. Berry Brazelton says, "The old myth of raising a child by instinct has disintegrated as our culture has become less certain of its ...

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