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Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

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Leonard Sweet

... people will say they think those would be Jesus' shoes.] The truth is that Jesus no longer wears sandals. Since the day Jesus removed his sandals to ascend the cross, he has no other shoes but ours. Jesus wants a shoe collection that would turn Imelda Marcos to shame. · When Jesus calls masons in their steel-toed boots, he calls them to build. · When Jesus calls farmers in their big green Wellies, he calls them to plant. · When Jesus calls nurses in their white crepe soles, he calls them to heal. · When ...

2. Equipped To Play

Ephesians 6:10-20

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Robert R. Kopp

... Grail. It's the same with everything else. One of my favorite commercials has a teenager looking into her closet which is packed tightly with clothes. She turns around in panic and screams, "Mom, school starts next week and I've got nothing to wear!" It's the Imelda Marcos syndrome and we've all got it. How many clubs or rackets or tools or computers or shoes or suits or necklaces or rings or belts or briefcases or purses or dolls or toys or trains or video games or ... (It's a long list!) ... do we need ...

3. Growing No Feathers

Exodus 3:1-22

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When Imelda Marcos was criticized for having 3,000 pairs of shoes in her closet, her excuse was: "Everybody kept their shoes there. The maids ... everybody."1 When Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped a Beverly Hills policeman, her excuse was: "I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. ...

4. Why Matter Matters

2 Peter 3:1-18

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Leonard Sweet

... a “material” celebration. We can never again be matter-of-fact about matter. Of course we have completely marred and messed up materiality over these twenty centuries. In the twenty-first century being “material” means owning matching BMW’s, an Imelda-Marcos-worthy collection of extremely expensive shoes, lots of prime real estate, and a bank account in the Cayman Islands that no one knows about. Those things are definitely NOT what we celebrate as “matter that matters” during Advent. The ...

5. Building For Durability

Matthew 7:24-29

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Timothy Wilkins

... , and in that horrible insecurity begins also to doubt whether there is anything to believe at all." Sometime back, the world stood shocked to learn that the former President of the Phillipines, Ferdinand Marcos, and his wife, Imelda, had amassed a personal fortune. During his 20-year reign, while their country was devastated by poverty, the Marcos family ™s wealth grew to between 5 and 10 billion dollars. And yet with a 5-to 10-billion-dollar empire, they had no place to set it because no country on the ...

6. He Leadeth Me

Psalm 23:1-6

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Maxie Dunnam

... worship in this beautiful place each Sunday — must lead to commitment to walk the paths of righteousness, to take greater risks in love. Did you read how Ferdinand Marcos said that his religious devotion kept him from committing suicide? It’s too bad it did not keep him from stealing his country blind and persecuting his opponents. Or his wife, Imelda, who complained that the media coverage was only showing her extravagances and the luxury of the palace in Manila, and not showing the prayer room in the ...

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