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Proverbs 25:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... the point had sunk in and the crowd sang, "Certainly, certainly, certainly, Lord." The preacher then spoke his heart and mind. "We're not just fighting for our rights, but for the good of the whole society. It's not enough to defeat Jim Clark -- do you hear me, Jim? -- we want you converted!" (Walter Wink, "Facing the Enemy," Sojourners) Sometimes, when we speak our mind and heart, we have to speak the truth in love. We have to speak judgment but we have to flavor that judgment with love. With caring. And ...

2. Blind Bartimaeus - Model For Healing

Mark 10:46-52

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James W. Robinson

... my notebook. At the end of class, I returned his papers, filled with my copious notes on the professor’s lecture. It took Jim all day to complete a two-hour exam. But despite all his handicaps - they were challenges to him - he made the dean’s ... , "Call him over." III. When all is said, it was Bartimaeus’ faith, of course, that was the crucial factor in his victory. J. F. Clarke commented, "All the strength and and force of a man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who ...

3. A Claim to a Crown

Matthew 24:36-51

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George Bass

... of the times and the financial cutbacks on NASA’s space program, made necessary by a tired and sick economy. In Clark’s story, a spaceship took off from the earth and landed on Icarus, the small moon which orbits Mars, while the ... we had better not spend that time quaking in fear of death or worrying continually about the possible end of humanity and all other life. Jim Klobuchar wrote about the illness and death of a man, Russ Skoe, who lived a rather remarkable kind of life as a pharmacist in northern ...

4. Wonderful Opportunities for Mission

Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23)

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Mark Ellingsen

... Jesus' instructions were about preaching and evangelism. The special bias that God has for the poor and hurting is obvious in Jesus' instructions. Jim Wallis, a well-known Evangelical political activist, wrote a best-selling book titled God's Politics, which pointed out that there are ... . 2. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, Vol. III, ed. G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1976), p. 64. 3. Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2002), pp ...

5. Service

Mark 10:35-45

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Warren Thomas Smith

... upon), but it did convey youthful willingness to go out and live for noble purposes, and to do battle against slums, war, Jim Crow-ism, poverty, ignorance, and sin. It called for a new age and high-minded young disciples: "Are ye able," said the ... God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. 1. Elmer T. Clark, ed. The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1958), Journal I:669. 2. The Book of Hymns, number 413. 3. The ...

6. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

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King Duncan

... ?" David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." Gary Cooper said this about his decision not to take the leading role ... father's wise and loving advice to him before Jimmy went off to fight in World War II. In a letter, Alex Stewart wrote, "My dear Jim boy, Soon after you read this letter, you will be on your way to the worst sort of danger . . . I am banking on the enclosed ...

7. Winners Every One

2 Timothy 4:9-18

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King Duncan

... players a while back. There have been many scandals in college athletics in recent years. The University of Georgia's assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. came under fire in 2004 when an N.C.A.A. investigation revealed that his multiple-choice exams for ... limits. But Harrison turned the tables on the prosecutors. His lawyers called more than 200 of Hollywood's biggest stars--people like Clark Gable and Elizabeth Taylor--to testify to the truth of the stories. Suddenly, Hollywood was in a serious bind. If they told ...

8. Generations

John 4:1-26

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Leonard Sweet

... commitmentphobes," a fickle flock on some kind of flight from commitment. The truth is you are seekers, not joiners. (Wade Clark Roof, Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation [San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993]: 27.) You're independent ... in common is a fundamental cynicism about life, a basic disbelief that anything or anyone can be trusted. Buster Jim Anderson remembers asking his mother what a bumper sticker meant that read "Impeach Nixon." Acronyms like LAPD and PTL ...

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