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Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Jeannine K. Brown

... broadly. 10:20 the Spirit of your Father. This phrase is unique in Matthew and in Scripture generally. It echoes ideas from John 15:26, where the Spirit is said to be sent by the Father and to testify about Jesus. In Matthew the Spirit ... Doolittle. This godly couple had experienced their share of hardship. Mrs. Doolittle had been confined to her bed for nearly twenty years. Mr. Doolittle was in a wheelchair. Through it all, however, they had maintained an abiding joy. When asked their secret, Mrs. Doolittle ...

2. Putting the World Back Together

John 20:1-9

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David O. Bales

... Mitsuo Fuchida came to the US to speak. People listened intently to these two men talk about how God can put the world back together; because, the American man had been a Doolittle raider who had bombed Japan in April 1942, and the Japanese man had been the pilot in December 1941, who led 360 airplanes to bomb Pearl Harbor.[1] What John wrote in his gospel and what Christians have said or done throughout history convinces only a few that Jesus is alive again and that through him God is hurrying to put the ...

3. A Watery Grave

Mark 1:9-13

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David J. Kalas

... the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in nursery wallpaper, the story of Noah has been tamed into a kind of ancient Dr. Doolittle with his boatful of happy pets. The apostle Peter, however, has a different take on the familiar story. And so he provides ... . While we understand that a baptism of repentance was not necessary for Jesus, that was the nature of everyone else’s participation in John’s baptism, and that is a part of the meaning and purpose Peter clearly has in mind. It is no mere bath, he insists ...

4. His Name Was Rocky Johnson

Matthew 16:13-20

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Frank Lyman

... an oral exam. He asks, "Who do people say that I am?" The disciples' answers are all over the map: "Some say you're John the Baptist." John was a loner who preached fiery wrath and wore a coat of camel's hair. "Some say you're Elijah." Last time we saw ... ," said Peter, "the Son of the Living God!" Surely Jesus would have felt comfortable with the words Professor Henry Higgins said to Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady: "By George, I think he's got it!" In response to Peter's profession of faith, Jesus gives the ...

5. I Doubt It

John 20:19-31, Act 4:32-37

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Billy D. Strayhorn

The Apostle Thomas could have been related to Eliza Doolittle from the musical My Fair Lady. She expresses the same idea as Thomas when she cries out, "Don't tell ... to belong. But his doubt caused a gulf between himself and the rest of the disciples. Let's look at the passage that describes this episode of doubt in Thomas' life. Let's look at John 20:19-31 (NRSV) [19] When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the ...

6. Job Feels under Attack by God

Job 16:1-17:16

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Daniel J. Estes

... his body that, according to the retribution principle, it is exhibit A of his guilt (cf. the question by Jesus’s disciples in John 9:2). His gaunt body looks like a ghost rising up as a witness against Job. People who observe Job cannot look past ... based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. In the musical and the film version, in a song called “Show Me,” Eliza Doolittle complains about how Professor Higgins is all talk and no action, a parallel to Job’s description of the long-winded speeches of ...

7. Tangible Tests

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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David & Marian Plant

In the musical “My Fair Lady,” Eliza Doolittle challenged her suitor Freddie to the tangible test — the “show me so I can see, hear, taste, touch, or ... whosoever believeth shall never die.” Now, let’s turn to Thomas. I like Thomas. He’s unabashed. If he did not understand something, he asked (John 14:5). He was action oriented (John 11:6). In multiple intelligence terms, he was kinesthetic. In Meyers-Briggs Personality Traits, he was SENSING while others around him were PERCEIVING. It could be ...

8. Words, Words, Words

John 4:1-26

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Thomas Long

... eyebrow. Rhetoric, talk, words -- we don't trust them. Words are sneaky; talk is cheap. We don't want words; we want substance. As Eliza Doolittle says to her two suitors in My Fair Lady: Words, words, words ... is that all you blighters can do? Don't talk of stars burning ... that is Christ. So will it be for all of us. 1. Edgar A. Guest, "Sermons We See" as cited in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, fourteenth edition, edited by Emily Morison Beck (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., 1968), p. 963. 2 ...

9. Pathway To God's Kingdom

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

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Leonard H. Budd

... title, is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and is seldom mentioned in the New Testament except in the synoptics. In the gospel of John it is cited only twice. In the book of Acts, describing the beginnings of the Christian church, it is only noted six times. ... -25 planes took off from a pitching aircraft-carrier deck and headed for Japan. They were under the command of Jimmy Doolittle. Those 16 planes planned a surprise attack upon the Japanese mainland, as the Japanese had done to Pearl Harbor only five ...

10. Resting In The Lord (A Drama about Church and Nature)

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Dave Marsh

... reading and praying and stuff. Curses. (closes eyes and grits teeth and pushes the Call button) Dave (talking): (Strange voice) Hi, this is John. You’ve reached my voicemail and… what? Oh, ha ha. Well, I was just playing a little joke. No! I wasn’t avoiding you ... fellowship? Well, I can talk to, er, um, the animals. Heh. Yeah, (starts singing and doing a little dance from Dr. Doolittle) “If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, grunt and screech and squawk with the animals…” (back ...

11. Mind Your Manners

Luke 14:1, 7-14

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Will Willimon

... do. I'm supposed to be an expert on the Bible, theology, things like that, not good manners. My models are Martin Luther, John Wesley, Billy Graham, not Emily Post Or Amy Vanderbilt. What was I to do? Can you imagine my delighted surprise when I found ... table is where we find our place. One can learn a great deal about people by observing the way they eat. More than one Eliza Doolittle has been transformed into a queen by teaching her how to hold a fork, how to sit, how to make dinner table conversation. Of ...

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