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Ephesians 1:15-23

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Richard W. Ferris

... loved ones of his studio audience. He also holds private readings that cost in the neighborhood of $300 and has a waiting list of up to three years in advance. Needless to say, there are a lot of people who believe in crossing over and, in particular, in John Edward's ability to patch them through to their deceased loved ones. He is quite convincing. To his credit, at the end of every program, he states that it is not necessary to have a medium present in order to hear from those who have passed, if only we ...

2. Submission

Matthew 3:13-17

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... hope the day will come when he will take the faith for himself and be confirmed as a member of Christ's Universal Church. It is our hope and prayer that his life will be submitted to God's authority - that he will live out the meaning of his baptism. John Edward now lives his life as a person who has been baptized. That mark is on him. He may not choose to live by the meaning of baptism, but he can never erase what has happened today. He will pass through the innocence of childhood as a baptized person. He ...

3. As Seen from the Solitary Broom Tree

1 Kings 19:1-18

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Stan Purdum

... out of his troubles, you find a place to bury your own." I've got a file full of examples of that, but here's one I heard about recently: During the recent presidential election, we learned a little about Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, John Edwards. One of the things we heard was that the Edwardses had a lost their son, Wade. At sixteen years of age, this promising young man was killed in an auto accident when a freak wind blew his vehicle off the road. Frankly ...

4. Worthy of God

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

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Rick Brand

... a great delight and satisfaction when the gifts given are received and used in ways that are fitting and becoming to the gift. There is an important Tuesday in November; it is Election Day. In 2002, Senator John Edwards may have been the only politician on television telling the truth in his campaign aids. Senator Edwards of North Carolina was urging citizens to vote. The only action which would be appropriate to the gift of liberty we have been given is to vote. We have been given the amazing gift of the ...

5. With Our Own Eyes

2 Peter 1:16-21

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John N. Brittain

... but spiritual" segment of the population is utterly disinterested in what is happening in the church and so in that sense we could say are not a direct threat to the Christian community. I have yet to hear of a church board wanting to invite John Edwards to channel a recently deceased member. Yet, even if not a direct internal threat, the enormous increase in people devoted to these spiritual paths does pose a challenge: Why do people not see the Christian community as the logical place to seek out "the ...

6. A Holy-wood Ending

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

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Richard W. Ferris

... decide if it's worth watching the whole thing? If you're like that, then have I got good news for you! You don't have to read your daily horoscope. You don't have to go to a fortune-teller. You don't even have to go to John Edward and receive messages from people who have already "crossed over." The ending has already been revealed, and it's a glorious ending. Even if the final chapters are filled with suffering and pain, the ending is a "holy-wood ending." You will triumph with Jesus. You will rejoice with ...

7. Looking Into the Eyes of the Risen Christ

John 20:11-18

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James W. Moore

... old, old man falling off a ladder. It scares the dickens out of him… and he and his brother run home in fear. Now, only Edward remains. What should he do? Does he really want to look into her eye? Does he really want to know? On the one hand, knowing how ... that Camelot is possible. Run. Sir John, Run! Tell the world… it’s still possible. Run, Sir John, run! Tell everyone that hope is still alive! What a moment! And that is what is happening here in this Easter story in John 20. Jesus is sending Mary out ...

8. Characteristics of Christ That You and I Need

Mark 8:27-35

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King Duncan

... forced to go out during the day to beg for money. But Tom dreams of one day being a person of distinction. The second boy is Edward Tudor, who happens to be the son of King Henry VIII. As such he lives the life of a prince, raised in the palace, wrapped in ... brought her to the U.S., where Betty Stam’s parents raised her. The story has an interesting conclusion: When news of John and Betty Stam’s martyrdom reached their colleagues at the Moody Bible Institute in the U.S., over 700 students volunteered to ...

9. Memorable Words

Luke 3:1-20

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Paul Boller

... , "My speech will soon be forgotten; yours never will be. How gladly would I exchange my hundred pages for your twenty lines." Today we still remember Lincoln's words and no one can even tell you who Edward Everett is or what he did that great day at Gettysburg. Perhaps this helps us to understand the circumstances surrounding John the Baptist. Perhaps we can better comprehend these words from Luke's gospel when he writes: "As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning ...

10. Sick People Like Us Will Always Need The (Divine) Doctor

Matthew 9:9-13

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Mark Ellingsen

... Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2002), pp. 179 ff. 4. John Calvin, Commentary On a Harmony of The Evangelists, Mathew, Mark, and Luke (1555), in Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. XVI.I, trans. William Pringle (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2005), pp. 401-402. 5. Jonathan Edwards, God Glorified in Man's Dependence (1731), in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 2 (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1998), pp. 6-7. 6. Augustine, On Man's Perfection in Righteousness ...

11. The Voice Of The Lord

Psalm 29:1-11

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King Duncan

... interface. She said, "Hey, you should try Elwood.'" Her husband's entire career had been in radio and TV. Edwards agreed to record four simple phrases on a run-of-the-mill cassette player. The phrases were "Welcome!"; "File's done"; "Goodbye"; and, of ... for today concerns that important milestone when Jesus was baptized in the river Jordan by John the Baptist. Jesus, the Word made flesh, according to the Gospel of John, humbles himself and is baptized at the hands of this wilderness preacher. Do you remember ...

12. “The Heavens Declare the Glory of God”

Psalm 19:1-14

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C. Hassell Bullock

... Christianity: There are countries throughout the world where possessing or distributing Bibles is illegal or dangerous.15 Pakistan is one country that has religious freedom guaranteed by its constitution but where Christians often face prosecution under blasphemy laws or persecution from neighbors. One pastor, “Edward John,” held sewing classes at a sewing center in Karachi. A student, Abia, was curious about the daily Bible readings and asked repeatedly to have a copy of her own. So one day Pastor ...

13. The Church of Your Dreams

Acts 2:1-21

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John E. Harnish

... also a day which calls for the church to live in courage, as a sign of hope in a world of fear and anxiety. When John Wesley wanted to build his first chapel in London, he petitioned the city for land and was given a thirty-nine year lease on a ... would like to do through us for the sake of Jesus Christ…then do it! Not by our strength, but by your power. I think Ned Edwards was right—not just about the Beulah Church, but any church, our church. It is the church of our dreams, not because of high ceilings or ...

14. It’s Not about You; It’s All about God

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

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Mark Ellingsen

... Schweizer, The Good News According to Matthew, trans. David E. Green (2nd printing; Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1977), p. 297. 2. Martin Luther, The Large Catechism (1529), I.1, in The Book of Concord, ed. Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000), p. 386. 3. Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2002), p. 17. 4. Ibid, p. 260. 5. Jonathan Edwards, God Glorified in Man's Dependence (1731), in The Works of Jonathan ...

15. Surprise in a Graveyard

John 20:10-18

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King Duncan

... cries out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”). Surprise, Mary! Surprise! Your Master is alive. Surprise, Peter. Surprise, John. Surprise, all those who thought Jesus was dead. Surprise, world, Jesus is alive! The story of Easter is no ... ,in his book The Good Life, tells us of one man who believed strongly in Christ’s resurrection. His name was Edward Bennett Williams. Williams, now deceased, was one of the great lawyers and Washington power brokers of our age, an extraordinarily gifted ...

16. You Can Create A Godly Heritage!

1 Kings 2:1-12

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Stephen M. Crotts

... three congressmen, thirty judges, and one vice-president of the United States. All this, and there is not one record of an Edwards in prison, divorced, or on public welfare. As Proverbs 10:7 says, "The memory of the righteous is a blessing." What If Your ... away. Behold, all is brought into newness of life." How can this be? Jesus has given his disciples a ministry of binding and loosing (John 20:23). And the fact is, by his authority we can remove the curse that clouds our legacies. So, though one cannot do ...

17. Mary's Song

Micah 5:1-4

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King Duncan

... into Egypt. As we have already noted, the Christmas story begins with the birth not of Jesus but of John the Baptist. Jesus and John were cousins. In fact, one of the first things Mary did upon discovering that she was "with child" was ... But the most remarkable thing about this society isn't its technology, but its humanity; it has been planned as if people mattered. Edward Bellamy envisioned a future in which all people are treated with dignity and equity a future in which everyone has an opportunity ...

18. Waiting For The Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

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King Duncan

... and pray to the Lord to command some struggle to be stirred up in you, for the soul is matured only in battles." Abbot John did this, and when the temptations started up again, he did not pray that the struggle be taken away from him. Instead he ... pulp. Toward the end of the game, Cumberland quarterback Ed Edwards fumbled a snap from center. As the Tech linemen charged into his backfield, Edwards yelled to his backs, "Pick it up! Pick it up!" Edward's fullback, seeing the monsters rush in who had battered ...

19. He Leadeth Me

Psalm 23:1-6

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Maxie Dunnam

... til even American slavery, the vilest that ever saw the sun, shall vanish away before it. (The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., edited by John Telford (London: The Epworth Press, 1931). Did you catch the Latin w in the first sentence? “Unless the Divine Power ... of conscience, the assurance of God’s good pleasure and eternal life will affect any price. Many years ago, King Edward II and his Queen Alexandra were out walking on the moors some distance from their summer palace at Windsor. Suddenly, ...

20. The Lonesome George Church

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

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Leonard Sweet

... said, “As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work” (John 9:4), some scholars have heard echoes of Psalm 90:12: “Teach us to number our days aright,/that we may gain a heart of ... how your life looks when you hold it up to the light of the gospel of the God whose nature is to love of all humankind. --Edward Schillebeeckx, For the Sake of the Gospel (New York: Crossroad, 1992), 28 as quoted in Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for ...

21. When God Was Nothing

Philippians 2:1-11

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Brett Blair

... almost gave up on the day he shot his first pictures. At 16, young Edward bought a camera and took 50 photos. Only one turned out -- a portrait of his sister at the piano. Edward's father thought that was a poor showing. But his mother insisted that ... When he looked down from the cross upon his mother Mary and the disciple he loved John standing beside her and said, “Woman, here is your son.” He then turned to John and said, “Here is your mother.” In his greatest hour of distress, he was kindhearted. ...

22. The Family Was God’s Idea

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Gregory J. Johanson

... The family in our day and time - ambiguous and needed, imperfect and hopeful, growing and struggling - is the subject of Edward Stein’s affirmative and open-styled sermon The Family Was God’s Idea. It was preached to the congregation of ... , looked down and saw his mother there and the anguish on her face, and said to John, his beloved disciple, "Behold thy mother." And to his mother, "Behold thy son," passing on to John the responsibility that he as a son was leaving. Jesus was clarifying the fact, I think ...

23. The Art of Reflection

Luke 6:17-26

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Lori Wagner

... is not accurate, a way that does not acknowledge our beauty and our worth. A way that discourages us. A way that brings us down. John Scottus Eriugena believed that all sin was like an illness, a distortion of our vision, that needed to be cured and healed. Although sin can alter ... , American Indians, the poor and uneducated, women –all had their calls to preach the gospel blessed by Edwards and this extraordinary movement. Things changed, because they had changed. Today still, Jesus calls us as disciples ...

24. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

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King Duncan

... was not clear whether the fish escaped the net or not. (2) When I read that story I thought of today’s lesson from John’s Gospel. It was not long after Easter. Some of Jesus’ disciples had gone back to their trade--fishing on the Sea of ... the tales he told from the life he lived. In the novel on which the movie is based there is a scene in which people hear that Edward Bloom, his Dad, is dying. They begin to gather in front of his house. First just a few, and then more and more, until dozens of people ...

25. Memorial Day

John 15:1-17

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Angela Akers

... of the few comments Bradley ever made about the war, he made to his young son, James. In response to James' remark about heroism, John Bradley replied, "The heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who didn't come back." (2) Today is the day we honor those men ... to God. It is the love we celebrate today in the example of those soldiers who gave their lives for our freedom. Pastor Edward Chinn writes, "In India there is a cemetery where the bodies of American soldiers are buried. Over the entrance to the cemetery are ...

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