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1. What Happens When You Are Not Number One?

Mark 10:35-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... we’re God’s creation. God loves us. We belong to Him. But we don’t remember it. So we must press the issue of James and John’s distorted notion of being #1. II Let’s nail down the fact that there is nothing wrong with ambition; it is blind ambition ... looks like. But here is a broad outline from two secular sources. “A number of years ago a brilliant psychologist named Abraham Maslow began a new kind of study in the field of psychology. As he studied the works of the great pioneers Freud, Jung, ...

2. Lost in Plain Sight

John 1:29-34, John 1:35-42

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Dean Feldmeyer

... western world who did not know the name of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett. He was the real life incarnation of both James Bond and Indiana Jones and his exploits were the inspiration for the novel, The Lost World by Sherlock Holmes’ creator Arthur ... needs. When those are met we can then move on to our love and belonging needs and so forth up the ladder. For Abraham Maslow, the answer to the question, “What are you looking for?” would always be, “It depends.” It depends on where you are on the ...

3. Living While You Wait

Philippians 4:2-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... difficulty is seen in the way both the old and new translations of the Bible have rendered it. The King James Version uses the word “moderation”. Wyckliffe’s translates it “patience.” Tyndale and Kramer use the word “softness.” The Geneva ... “lightly so that like angels they can fly.” In his study of “Self-actualizing Persons”, the psychologist Abraham Maslow found that self-actualizing persons shared, in varying degrees, certain attitudes. One of these was a tolerance for uncertainty. ...

4. Son of Thunder, Son of God

Mark 10:35-45

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Donald B. Strobe

... because we have found something good does not mean that everyone else must have the same thing, even if it is a good thing. Abraham Maslow tells of a kitchen employee who was so good at opening cans that one day he opened every can in the hotel. We don’ ... t need everyone to do the same thing. We don’t need clones; we need Christians! We do know that both John and his brother James were men of violent temper. When Mark gives his list of the Twelve in Chapter 3, he says that Jesus even gave them a nickname ...

5. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

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Phil Thrailkill

... to be this way.... our souls are born distorted.... I am convinced that Moses was right, that his explanation was greater than Freud's or Maslow's or Pavlov's... none of us are happy in the way we were supposed to be. Nobody is...so confident that they feel the ... May 29, 2006. 5. Mercer Schuchardt, “Hugh Hefner’s Hollow Ring,” Christianity Today, 2003, www.ctlibrary.com. interview with Dr. James Dobson, "The Family in Crisis," Focus on the Family [August 2001], 2-4; source: U.S. Census Bureau). 6. See ...

6. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

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James Bjorge

I was sitting in my office staring blankly into space. Then my leather gloves which had been thrown on my desk caught my glance. They were limp and lifeless. I reached over and picked one of them up and slipped my right hand into it. The gloved filled out. I flexed my hand - the glove moved. It was filled with life. My mind began to dance with the thought of God coming to earth to slip into the gloves of human lives. He came to fill them out so they would pulsate with life ... so they could be and do ...

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