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Luke 9:28-36

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Mark Trotter

... line, "Listen to him!" That is addressed to the disciples. There are three of them on the mountain with Jesus: Peter, James and John. They have accompanied Jesus up to the mountain where Jesus prays. While he is praying, his face is transfigured. ... there is not only "seeing," there is also "vision." "Vision" in the Bible means, seeing what God gives us the gift to see. William Blake, the great poet, who has been called a "visionary" poet, wrote it this way in a poem: What will be questioned When the sun ...

2. The FUD Club: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

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Leonard Sweet

... for a “good life” that we seem unable to check or control. One of the heads of this FUD CLUB is the doomsayer Dr. James Lovelock, the Strangelovian named British scientist and futurologist, now almost 90, who says simply in his book The Revenge of Gaia: “We’re doomed.” ... should doubt, They’d immediately Go out --William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” in The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, newly rev. ed., ed. David V. Erdman (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982), 492.

3. A Story Worth Sharing

Mark 8:27-30

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David E. Leininger

... if the people who come after them forget? What if they just fail to tell? What is your alternate plan?" Jesus answered, "I have no other plan."(9) Amen! 1. Morgan Blake, sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal, quoted in Bible Illustrator for Windows, diskette, (Hiawatha, IO: Parsons Technology, 1994) 2. James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 256 3. Herb Miller, "Are We Inviting?" Invite a Friend Action Guide, (Princeton, NJ: Religion in American Life, 1996 ...

4. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

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James Angell

... 1920, have been G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Leslie Weatherhead, E. Stanley Jones, Ralph Sockman, George Buttrick, Peter Marshall, Donald Baillie, James Stewart, and Arthur John Gossip. To allow myself the luxury of a second decalogue, I also name Louis Evans, Carlyle Marney, James Pike, Ted Loder, Wallace Hamilton, Gerald Kennedy, Eugene Carson Blake, Liston Pope, Elton Trueblood, and Richard Raines. Plus the following, whose writing informed my mind and added muscle and music to my faith ...

5. Christ and Healing

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Robert G. Tuttle

... him from his bed ..." My friend was caught up in this declaration. At three a.m. he called up the leader of the elders of his church. He said, "Jim, I have just read this passage from James. I want you to come over right away and pray for me." The elder replied, "Pastor, I have never done this. I have no special power; you are the Man of Prayer." But the Pastor would not take ... our grief he may destroy: Till our grief is fled and gone He doth sit by us and moan. ("On Another’s Sorrow" by William Blake)

6. News Too Good To Tell

Luke 9:28-36

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J. Howard Olds

... and let us take a little closer look. I. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD IS A CALL TO PRAYER. Verse 28 says, “And he took Peter, James and John with him and went up on the mountain to pray.” The Psalmist said, “I lift up my eyes to the hills, From whence ... have been quiet. Mystery is a moving target. Each moment belongs to itself. You can’t make a monument out of a mystery. William Blake put it this way, “He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies ...

7. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

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Maurice A. Fetty

... that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.... -- Lines Composed A Few Lines Above Tintern Abbey William Blake experienced it when he wrote, To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in ... on Tuesday. That was cool." If nature suggests mystery, so does human nature. Famous Harvard psychologist, William James, wrote of the universal pervasiveness of the mystical experience without respect to specific religions or cultures or ...

8. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

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King Duncan

Doctors are so busy nowadays. More and more of them are running their practices like an assembly line. Doc Blakely tells about a fellow who walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him what he had. He said, "Shingles." So she took down his name, address ... , MN: Grason, 1991, p. 225. 3. Willie: An Autobiography. Willie Nelson with Bud Shrake. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988, pp. 218-219. 4. Is There Life After Stress? James W. Moore. Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1992, pp. 107-108.

9. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... your children and your father. Give no thought to your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’ Now the King James version has that 20th verse, regard not your stuff, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours. I like that. Regard not your ... we think it is all so natural, so easy, so effortless, and it is. But ,oh, the discipline behind the spontaneity! William Blake insists that Jesus was all virtue and acted from impulse, not from rules. He did not ponder. Now that may be a ...

10. Good News about Death

John 11:38-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... : “Here lies Johnny Yeast . . . Pardon me for not rising.” In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: “Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.” In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: “Here lays The Kid. We planted him ... Jesus wept. And Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Believe that, friend, and you will fear nothing in this world. 1. James R. Davis (http://www.focusongod.com/Hebrews‑1_1‑14.htm) 2. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), pp.135-137. 3. Getting ...

11. Can These Bones Live Again?

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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King Duncan

... these bones live?” Ezekiel answered, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” Maybe you’re asking that question about your life or the life of someone you love. Well, hear the word of the Lord. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones, dem bones gonna rise again. 1. Words and music by James Weldon Johnson. 2. God’s Little Lessons for Graduates, (Honor Books). Cited by Dr. Keith Wagner, http://www.lectionary.org/Sermons/Wagner/OT24Jer-Dan/Ezekiel%2037.1-14,%20FreshBeginnings.htm. 3 ...

12. Lost in the Wonder of God

Matthew 28:16-20

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Lori Wagner

... mountain, the Mount of Olives, where Jesus would ascend to the heavens. “Great things happen when men and mountains meet,” wrote William Blake But do you really think they could ever imagine the impact of what would happen next on the mountain, or how it would ... be. And Jesus tests you too. For to “be” a disciple means also to “make” disciples. It is our fundamental call. James Davis is perhaps the greatest Christian networker in the world today. He is the founder of the Billion Soul Network, and ...

13. Multiplying Men Of God

Malachi 2:5-7, 2 Timothy 2:2

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James Merritt

I have been given the task of talking about multiplying men of God. I know that I am talking to some of the greatest men of God in the world today, but before we can talk about multiplying men of God, we must make sure that men of God are doing the multiplying. I read a story about a prostitute who was dying and she knew she was not right with God. She asked one of her friends to go get a minister of the Gospel. They went out and found a pastor and he came to her bedside. She looked up at him and she said ...

14. Welcoming The New Millennium

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James Angell

At a wedding I attended 50 years ago, the bride's brother sang a love song, "At Dawning." I was the groom, and have since forgotten the lyrics. But even the words of the title have a nice sound. Dawn is a gorgeous time of day. Drenched in pastel beauty, mist, and quiet, it comes very softly, even as the freeways begin their hum of first traffic. For ships at sea, it is a time to do important navigational work. Sailors call it "morning twilight." And though the twenty-first century is still a few heartbeats ...

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.

James Hubert Blake

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