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John 12:20-36

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George Bass

... are hunkering down for the Apocalypse. They aren’t preparing their souls to meet doom, they are preparing their bunkers to escape it." Goodman believes that what the hot tub was to the 70s, the bunker will be for the 80s - "the emotional escape hatch" to help ... to visit Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, spent some time at St. John’s University and Monastery, Collegeville, Minnesota, less than 100 miles from my home. St. John’s was the fifth Benedictine monastery they visited - and the largest of ...

2. Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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... problems that combine to make life look rather hopeless. Is there any future for us - for the human race and all life - on the earth? A few years ago Ellen Goodman wrote a column titled, "Who Can Forget the Bomb?" She began: "It was a story about The Bomb, and who wanted to hear about that? The report came out of Princeton that John Aristotle Phillips, an aerospace-engineering student, had taken to the drawing board and produced The Design - a blueprint for an atomic bomb that could fit right into your car ...

3. Wouldn't You Prefer Real Freedom?

John 8:31-41

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King Duncan

... unfolds, you think to yourself rather sadly, "Little Tommy will learn soon enough that society places limits on a person's freedom." In John's Gospel, Jesus speaks these words to his followers, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." What did ... values is "freeing" people from the last social institution to which traditionally they have been tied, the family. (1) Ellen Goodman, who writes for the BOSTON GLOBE, calls us a "nation of leavers." Our forefathers left Asia or Europe to emigrate ...

4. Reflection Time

John 1:1-18

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... have thought of such a beautiful, ingenious machine but would have given me a book."24 Mary, without a doubt, told Jesus the stories about John’s birth and his own birth in Bethlehem, how they had to go to Egypt, and why they settled in Nazareth. They were vitally ... we may be sure! What a contrast we discover between Christ and ourselves from this perspective. A few years ago, Ellen Goodman wrote a column for the new year, "Forswearing the credit card habit." For the past several years, she writes, she ...

5. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

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Thomas C. Willadsen

... against bestowing titles — seriously, in the 1920s some people objected to calling Babe Ruth “the Sultan of Swat” and Benny Goodman “the King of Swing,” a decade later — because no royal titles! No Title of Nobility shall be granted by ... They pitted Pilate’s fear of God against his ambition, saying, “If you release this man you are no friend of the emperor.” John 19:12 (NRSV). The authorities did not seem troubled at all because the name Barabbas means, “son of the father” …hmm. It’s ...

6. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

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Thomas C. Willadsen

7. The TV Revolution

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Michael Rogness

... we fail to take this into account in preaching we will not reach our audience. The Communications Upheaval John Killinger, professor of preaching at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee, set out to identify "some of the ... above, because films blur the distinctions. Books are suited to careful analysis and historical examination, but screen images are not. Columnist Ellen Goodman described the controversy about JFK as "a fuss made by a generation that reads and writes for the minds of a ...

8. Proper 24

Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 121:1-8, Exodus 17:8-16, Genesis 32:22-32, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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George Bass

... about the human predicament in today's world. Does it do any good to pray to God - if there really is a God? Ellen Goodman wrote an editorial column for the Boston Globe in July, 1990, "Ranking Prayer and Penicillin." It had to do with the conviction of four ... Sloyan. Genesis 32:3-8, 22:20 (E); 32:22-30 (L) - "Moral Victory. " Recently I heard a commentator talking about one of John L. Sullivan's boxing matches; he won it in the 76th round - knocking out his opponent. The wrestling match between Jacob and the ...

9. When You Think You're Finished, That's When God Starts

Jeremiah 31:7-14

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Leonard Sweet

... astrology books. Not too long ago the paperback rights fee that broke an all-time record of $2,250,000 was for Linda Goodman's Love Signs, which has sold millions of copies. The human potential movement and the New Age movement, gimmicky gadgets like brain-boosting ... the 18th century produced a generation of leaders: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, John Adams, James Madison. The hard times of today are also calling forth great leaders. And great communities. Where are ...

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