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Matthew 16:21-28

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King Duncan

... Maybe I’m just speaking for myself, but I suspect it is part of the human condition. In her memoirs, Barbara Bush described one of her most embarrassing moments. Along with her husband, then the Vice President, Mrs. Bush was lunching with Emperor Hirohito at Tokyo’s Imperial Palace. Sitting next to the Emperor, Mrs. Bush found conversation an uphill task. To all her efforts at verbal engagement, the Emperor would smile and simply answer “Yes” or “No,” with an occasional “Thank you” tossed in ...

2. God’s Kind of King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... his trial Jesus said to Pilate, “You say that I am a king.” Then Pilate put this truth above the Cross: “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” This God-chosen King died that people might have life through the forgiveness of sins. When Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japan pardoned 30,000 people guilty of seventeen offenses. If the death of a human god-king could bring such pardon, think of what the death of Christ the King meant that all humanity was pardoned. Divine forgiveness is offered to one and ...

3. Power in a Small Package

Luke 19:1-10

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... 5'3" Micky Rooney, U.S. actor 5'3" Voltaire, French writer 5'3" James Madison, U.S. president 5'4" Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer 5'4" Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter 5'4" Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor 5'4" George "Baby Face" Nelson, U.S. gangster 5'4 3/4" Hirohito, Japanese emperor 5'5" Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping tycoon 5'5" Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor 5'6" Joseph Stalin, Soviet political leader 5'6" Tutankhamen, Egyptian king 5'6"

4. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

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J. Scott Duvall

... halt, the paralysed . . . into terrors to the prince of this world. . . . No man is a match for that warfare unless he is saved by God’s grace.11 Jesus triumphed over Satan in his cross, resurrection, and ascension. History: On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan addressed his nation for the first time by radio broadcast. His message was simple and tragic for the Japanese: they had been defeated by the Allied forces. For many, the end of conflict came as a difficult, but blessed, relief. But for a ...

5. Séance in Endor: Bad News from Beyond the Grave

1 Samuel 28:1-25

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... has consistently marked individuals throughout history, is that they completely miscalculate the consequences of their actions. Columnist Arnold Beichman once pointed out in a commentary in the Washington Times that Hitler misjudged Winston Churchill and British courage. Hirohito and his admirals confidently thought they could defeat the United States by surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. And Saddam Hussein miscalculated and ignored the intelligence that said President George W. Bush would go to war. Hussein ...

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Emperor Hirohito

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