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Mark 6:14-29

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David E. Leininger

... Go and ask Jesus, 'Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?'"(5) Sounds a bit like young Ian in that letter to God we read earlier. Jesus sent word back. "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive ... William Tell - he used a pistol to shoot a glass off his wife's head. He missed...and put a bullet in her brain instead.(6) How stupid. How evil. Yes, it often seems that the evil wins. But the message of our faith says that evil does not have the last word. Listen, Ian ...

2. A Faithful Follower I Would Be

Luke 14:25-35

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Timothy J. Smith

... Instead he recalled the words engraved on the headstone of a simple man buried at Boot Hill. The inscription read: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done all he could." Included on a church's annual commitment card was a question: "How many Sundays do you plan ... to be Christians. But our church never asked us to abandon our entire way of life." "Well, maybe it should have," Ian says. His parents look at each other. (2) Sometimes being a disciple of Jesus Christ causes misunderstandings or even hard feelings among ...

3. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

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Donald B. Strobe

... world? Like war. Like diseases. Like famine. Like drugs. And there are problems in other people’s neighborhoods too. I’ll try to believe more. (Signed)Ian.” (age 10) (p.121) Who of us cannot relate to that child’s letter to God? Who has not asked the same questions? It is ... word which we usually use. But retreats are for refreshment. After a retreat, we are supposed to make some advance. William Barclay writes: “...solitude is not meant to make us solitary. It is meant to make us better able to meet ...

4. When the Going Gets Tough

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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King Duncan

... drugs. And there are problems in other people’s neighborhoods too. I’ll try to believe more. Ian (age 10).” (1) Many of us struggle with the same questions as Ian. Any thinking person does. St. Paul certainly struggled with these questions. And yet it is evident that ... one was a stunning failure while the other was a stunning success. I must add this sad footnote, however. William was forced to resign as President of the University of Massachusetts in 2003 after being accused of concealing information ...

5. Good News about Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... and let his circumstances overwhelm him, but he did not. Many people with far more blessings than Bartimaeus have given up. Ian Fleming was the author of the James Bond novels, which, of course, have been made into a series of hugely successful movies. Fleming became fabulously wealthy. Yet ... -02-01AM_TwoPairsOfEyes.html. 4. Spirit, November 1999. Cited by Greg Asimakoupoulos in Leadership magazine. 5. Cited by William Barclay, And He Had Compassion (Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1976), pp. 43-44. 6. Illusaurus

6. Job Is for Real

Job 1:1, 2:1-10

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Donna Schaper

... pictured earth suspended, all of it, before our very eyes, we are in need of a reframing, that is Copernican in size and Hubble-ian in method. The Hubble telescope is so much like God's message to Job that it is not funny. When Job complains of his ... so far away, so unified. Or maybe it is with the artist who did Scarface. Do any of you know this painting? It is by Elizabeth Williams and I have only seen it once. But I will never forget it. She is asked to paint a woman who has been enormously disfigured by ...

7. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

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William J. Carl, III

... he would not have finished writing The Lord of the Rings, sections of which he read aloud at weekly meetings with Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield, who would also read from the works they were writing at the time. The very air you breathe is filled ... , Robert Southey. But, I also saw this enthusiasm for the gospel in other places. One of the bishops told us about Ian Paisley, that great Presbyterian evangelist in Belfast who preached regularly to huge crowds. One night, as he was just getting started ...

8. May Christ Be Born In You

Mark 1:1-8

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King Duncan

... from God. The first step in preparing for the coming of Jesus this Advent is to examine our lives and make a new beginning. Ian Maclaren once told a delightful story of Lackland Campbell and his daughter Dora. Dora left home and fell into the wrong kind of relationships ... voice of John the Baptist calling out to each one of us. "Prepare the way of the Lord..." 1. PRAIRY EARTH. William Least Heat-Moon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991, p. 525. 2. WHEN THE HEART WAITS. Sue Monk Kidd. San Francisco: Harper ...

9. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... being led. (These three designations, powerlessness, pace, and pettiness -- in some of the content of this discussion is suggested by William A. Ridder, "Twenty-Five Something", June 17, 1990) Now I don't mean there have not been times when I ... me to you were felt." This is what brings eternity in the present and makes the contemporary word take on eternal significance. Dr. Ian McClaron quoted the old Puritan divine who said, "When so many are preaching to the times, let one brother speak for eternity." And ...

10. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... the ages, writers whose names I barely knew and to whose writings I was a stranger: Julian or Norwich, William Law, Francois Fenelon, Francis of Assisi, Evelyn Underhill, Brother Lawrence, and an array of others. I began a ... wanted to make serious changes in the way he struck the ball. The history of such efforts is not auspicious. Some fine golfers – Ian Baker-Finch, Steve Ballesteros, Chip Beck – have revamped their swing and never returned to their earlier glory. What was Woods thinking? “I knew ...

11. All for Some Dumb Sheep

John 10:11-18

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King Duncan

... life for a flock of intellectually challenged sheep. As someone has said, “God created sheep in order to make chickens look smart.” Ian Simmons in his book Exploding Pigs tells about a group of Chinese shepherds in Mongolia who were put in a difficult place ... 2. Christine Dempsey, http://articles.courant.com/2002-06-05/news/0206052632_1_united-states-parachute-association-deployed-skydiving. 3. (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005), pp. 160-161. 4. (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1997), p. 100. ...

12. A Blessing Behind Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

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William G. Carter

Every Sunday morning, the people of a church in the Pacific Northwest say, "Peace be with you." They begin the worship service with a hymn of praise. The people confess their sins together, and hear of God's forgiveness. Then they are invited to turn to others around them and pass the peace. It has become an exuberant moment in an otherwise sober occasion. Friends leave their pews to embrace one another. Newcomers are warmly welcomed with a kind word or a hug. Nobody thought much about the weekly ritual ...

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