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Malachi 2:17--3:5

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King Duncan

... simply overwhelms our entire culture. Not everyone who places a star atop their tree, though, places Christ at the top of their lives. Hermon Wouk is an outstanding Jewish writer. In one of his books he tells how persons with a Jewish background deal with this all-pervasive holiday. ... May/June 1994, p. 7. 3. The Rev. Dr. Ward Williams, Caracas, Venezuela. 4. Herman Wouk, THIS IS MY GOD: THE JEWISH WAY OF LIFE, (New York: A Touchstone Book, 1970). 5. Contributed by Wayne Long. Source: BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATOR.

2. When Life Isn't Fair

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... wait until the last moment to repent? I mean, if you’re going to get the same reward, why not party hearty right up until the last moment? This, by the way, is not exclusively a Christian teaching. Our Jewish friends wrestle with this same conundrum. Herman Wouk, in his book, This Is My God: The Jewish Way Of Life tells a story about his grandfather, a learned and pious Jew. His grandfather had in his apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day when they were studying ...

3. Determined Discipleship

1 Timothy 6:11-21

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King Duncan

... ™s good advice, but many of us have quit looking at the light. We are content to watch other people and to do as they do. And thus we remain adrift with no fixed point of reference for our lives. In the novel, THE CAINE MUTINY, Herman Wouk has one of the characters, Willie Keith, receive a letter. The letter came from his father who was dying of an incurable disease. His father offered three bits of advice to his son: "First, there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. Wasted hours destroy your ...

4. Pardon Me, But Do You Know God?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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King Duncan

... too much attention on the Law. Jesus had no quarrel with Judaism. After all, he was Jewish. His quarrel was with those scholars and leaders who would turn the Sacred Word into a suffocating legalism. In his book, INSIDE, OUTSIDE, Jewish writer Herman Wouk tells a story about David Goodkind, a young Jewish boy whose parents immigrated from Russia. David explains that his family was thoroughly Orthodox. They did everything properly. Not only did the family not eat pork, young David's mother never served meat ...

5. Let Familiarity Breed Contentment

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... part of a tradition that gives you stories like these? One of the most amazing and dramatic narratives in all of recorded history – the story of the children of Israel making their way from slavery to the Promised Land. In the words of novelist Herman Wouk: "No other nation ever undertook as a matter of law, to love God, to observe his commandments, to love their neighbors as themselves, to protect widows and orphans, to feed and clothe the poor." (as quoted in Thomas Corbishley, The Prayer of Jesus [New ...

6. A Taxing Encounter

Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 2:13-17, Luke 5:27-32

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Lori Wagner

... at the crack of dawn to start studying all over again. On Sabbath, he would return home to his wife and family, but when Sabbath was over, he would return to the synagogue. You can read more about the “Porush” if you want. Herman Wouk dedicated an entire chapter (6) to “The Porush” in his novel “Inside, Outside” (1985). Porush is a Hebrew word meaning dedicated, separated, but in the NT it transliterates as “Pharisee.” The Pharisees were those who majored in minors, specialized in rules and ...

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