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1 Chronicles 7:1-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... have been guilty of that or not. Just stay general, you know....hedging a bit, so that my faith would not be tested if the petition I requested was not granted. Now at the heart of that hesitancy is a lack of boldness. There are many reasons for this, I am ... named Kay who played with imaginary characters down by the creek behind our house. One of the most precious things she has ever done. Jerry never heard from Kay. She even tried to get in touch with her by phone, but was unable to do so. I'm quite certain ...

2. Put My Tears In Thy Bottle

Psalm 56:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... Psalmist that is new. The psalmist is always talking about tears. But it's the image connected with the tears in this particular petition that grabs our attention, "Put my tears in thy bottle." In my research I have found but one commentary on this image, and ... his brain. The inspiring thing was Randy's response. In the hospital for his treatment of fourth-stage lympthoma, in a conversation with Jerry, he shared a word he had just read from his Episcopal prayer book. I want to share that word with you. It was ...

3. The Shepherd Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

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Maxie Dunnam

... in green pastures: lead me beside the still waters.” He is asserting these very things and glorying in them. There is place for petition of course. Our Lord taught us to say, “Give us this day our daily bread.” (Matt. 6:11) How magnificent it is to ... to get in. Since Janice couldn’t go to South Africa, she had a small dinner in Nairobi honoring Abel and Freda to which Jerry and I were invited. She gave the Hendricks the opportunity to invite a few of their choice friends out of the South African ...

4. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

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Phil Thrailkill

... social engineers? But is it enough to deal with the depth of the human condition? No, it is not because there is one more petition that requires an intellectual conversion of sorts. We all know about temptation, with the magnetic lure to do what is wrong. Jesus reminds us ... the kingdom of God. 1. I Corinthians 3:10-15. 2. For a possible Protestant reading of purgation at death, see Jerry Walls, “Purgatory for Everyone,” First Things 122, April 2002, 26-30. 3. Two books that have pushed me over the edge ...

5. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... clean and moral Christian life. And anyone who did not accept Jesus and live a Christian life simply went to hell. That's where Jerry Sisco was, and we all knew it."1 I understand the polite reticence of the Sunday School teacher, but her student and his friend ... Holy Spirit. “Thy kingdom come,” in the first part of the Lord’s Prayer is paralleled in the second part by the petition to “deliver us from the Evil One.” It is a battle, and your choice matters. “Enter,” Jesus invites us all, but then ...

6. Strengthening Your Grip On Prayer

1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43

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Derl G. Keefer

... Solomon had a continual experience with prayer as a lifestyle. It came from his heart. In their book, Fully Alive, Jerry and Larry Hull remind us that people are to live a life of "wholeness." This wholeness includes "integration," meaning ... amazing what he has to say if we just listen. IV. Strengthening Our Grip On Petitioning Prayer As A Lifestyle In 1 Kings 8:22-53, Solomon gives a series of short petitions to God. Petitions are requests that one makes to a caring, listening God. Solomon asks: * God to ...

7. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

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... our daily jobs. We need to pray in the sense that prayer is aligning our will with God's will. I think the most-often quoted petition of the Lord's Prayer is the one that pleads, "Thy will be done." How true that is in connection with our daily work. To be ... a request for the necessary commitment and dedication to work toward cures for dread disease as well. In several weeks the Jerry Lewis telethon for Muscular Dystrophy will come across your TV screen. Many people pray for a cure for this dread disease, ...

8. I've Been To The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

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Maxie Dunnam

... place in our understanding of the Christian experience. Communion with God always transfigures. That means, Friends, that prayer is more than petition. It's more than simply begging God to do something for us. It's being with God, sharing our life with ... something happened in the midst of that. All of a sudden, she found herself singing to Mary. She was singing a children's lullaby that Jerry and I used to sing to her and to our other children when they were little. We would call the child's name like this ...

9. No More Tears

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King Duncan

... yearning for relief. We see Jesus in the fog of a broken heart. “The writer of Hebrews would later pen, ‘During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death’” (Hebrews 5:7). (2) That’s life at its rawest and sacrifice at its fullest measure. If the Son ... safe-mail.com/. 3. What Do You Say to a Hungry World? (Waco: Word Books, 1975), p. 252. 4. Dr. Jerry Walls, The Asbury Herald, Volume 112, No. 2 & 3, p. 6.

10. Moses's New Job

Exodus 4:18-31

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Jerry Eckert

September 5, 1982 Comment: It was Labor Day weekend and it was also a time when I found myself involved in a bit of a confrontation with some leaders in my Annual Conference. That led to a strange com-bination. But knowing the story of Moses and realizing that he undertook the mission to free his people, I found myself putting together the few bits of data about Moses' wife in all that and came up with a fictitious correspondence. It was easy to find a reader for the Zipporah part because the church had a ...

11. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

Jesus had attacked the orthodox Jewish leaders by telling the story of the two sons (Matthew 21:28-32). The Jewish leaders are the son who did not do the father’s will. Then he told the story of the wicked husbandmen (Matthew 21:33-46). Again, the religious leaders are the bad guys! In the story of the King’s feast (Matthew 22:1-14), they are the condemned guests who turn down the invitation. In the Scripture for today, we see the Jews launching their counterattack - they go at him by asking him ...

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